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ARTES SCIENTIA VERITAS
PRAGUE
AND ITS
ENVIRONS
The Map Accompanying This
Text Is In
THE UNIV. OF MICH. ,
MAP COLLEGION /'
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CHARLES BELLMANN
PUBLISHER PRAGUE
1905.
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WITH A LARGE MAP OF THE
CITY, A COMPLETE LIST o o
OF STREETS AND SQUARES
AND 16 PHOTOTYPE PRINTS
PRINTER
CHARLES BELLMANN
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Alphabetical Index.
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rage
. 2k.bbey St. Margareth ... 45
. iegidiuB church 12
Agnescloister 35
All Saint8-Church 31
. Altnenschule 34
, Altstadt (Old Town) .... 7
f Vrchiepiscopal Palace ... 23
. Archiepiscopal Seminary . . 15
. ilstroDomic clock 9
; ISaumgarteo 44
i: 3elYedere 32
I 3enedictine-Abbey Emaas . 41
I ^etlehemsplatz (Betlemsk^
ndm^sti) 12
;• Bohemian Diet- House ... 20
i Bohemian Industrial Museum 12
|. Bohemian Polytechnicum . . 89
Bdhmische Sparkassa ... 14
Bridge -Tower of the little
Town 17
Bridge-Tower of the old Town IG
Oapuchin's Hospice . . . .36
Capuchin -Monastery .... 22
Carolinum 7
Cathedral of St. Vitus ... 25
Children's Hospital .... 39
Choteksanlagen 33
Church of St. John Nepomuk 41
Clam-Gallas' Palace .... 12
Clemens-Church 15
Clementinum 14
Cloister of the Dominicans . 12
Corps-Commando-building . . 20
Custom-house . 38
aliborka 32
nglisches Fr&uleinstift . .19
S^ranzensbridge 14
Franzensmonument . . . .13
Franzensquai 13
Fraoz Joseph's Barracks . . 22
Franz Joseph-Bridge
Furstenberg-Palace
-allichurch 8
St. George's Church .... 30
German Casino 37
German Hall 24
German Technical High school 12
Grosser Ring (Velk^ ntoSsti) 8
Grosser Stadtpark 38
Pagt
. 35
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:irschgraben 32
History of Prague 1
Hospital 39
Hradchin 21
Xgnaz-Church 39
Industrial Museum 34
Italian chapel 14
JTakobs-Church 12
St. Johann von Nepomuk's
statue 17
Joseph's Church 38
Josephstadt 34
ijetan-Church .... 21
Karlsbrucke (Charlesbridge) 16
Karlshof 40
Karlstein 46
Karmeliterlnnencloister . . 23
Karolinenthal 43
Kinsky's Palace 10
Klar's Asylum for the Blind 33
The Eleinseite (Little Town) 17
Kreuzherrenchurch .... 15
Kreuzkapelle 13
X^andes-Museum 37
Landestheater (German
Theatre) 7
Landtagssaal (Diet-hall) . . 25
Lobkovitz's Palace 21
Lobkovitz's Palace 31
Lying-in-Hospital 40
Page
^altheBer-Church .... 18
Maria-Schnee-Ghurch ... 38
Martin's Chapel 42
Mary-Annanciations-Church . 41
MoDument of Charles IV. . 15
Museum, st&dtisches .... 36
JXTational Theatre 13
Nenst&dter Rathhaas. ... 39
New German Theatre ... 38
Nicholas-Church 20
Nostiz's Palace 18
Nostiz's Palace 37
Old Judenfriedhof .... 35
Old Oberstbnr^grafenamt . . 31
Old Senators Hall 25
3E»alace of the governor . . 20
Picture- Gallery 34
Promenades 43
Pulverturm (Powder-Tower) 7
Xl.athaus (Town-Hall) ... 9
Royal Castle 23
Rudolphinum 33
Russian orthodox Church . .10
Pago
lalvatorchurch U
Schwarzer Turm 32
Schwarzenberg's Palace . . 23
SmichoY 44
Sophienisland 14
Spanish Hall 24
Stftdtische Sparkassa .... 8
Statue of St. George .... 24
Stephanschurch .... • . 40
Stern 45
Strahov 21
■Teinchurch 10
Teinhof 11
Theresianisches Damenstift . 31
Topography and Statistics . 5
Toskana's Palace 23
XTniversity-Library . . . .15
XTenzelsplace 37
Vladislav's Hall 25
Yyshebrad 41
"VITaldsteinpalace 19
Weinberge ,. . 44
Weisser Turm 32
White Hill 45
■^tr
The Sights and when they are to be seen.*)
Alt'Neuschule. The famous synagogue in the Josephstadt.
Except on high Jewish festivals to be seen daily from 10—12
o'clock, and from 2 — 4. (Usually somebody stands at the door, in
order to admit strangers or to fetch the servant of the synagogue.
Anatomical Preparations etc. 1. in the general hospital, Neu-
stadt, Erankenhausgasse (U nemocnice), Nr. 2. Near Earlsplatz,
Saturday from 11—12 o'clock; 2. in the Francis Joseph- Kinder-
spitale, Charles-square (Karlovo n&m^sti) 1 ; 3. in the physiological
institution, Wenzelsbad, Wenzelsgasse (Ydclavskd ulice) 29.
Archeological Collections (see Clementinum).
Outlook-tower on the Laurenziherg. A lift to the tower. In
summer from 7 in the morning till 8 o'clock in the evening.
Belvedere see Ferdinands LustscMoss.
Libraries, see Clementinum, Trades- museum, Trades-union,
Museum, Rudolphinum, tech. High-School.
Botanical Garden in Slup (Na Slupi). Admission in every
time free.
Carolinum, old university. Altstadt, Eisengasse (2elezn&
ulice). Promotion-Hall, Bay-window-Chapel. Apply to the janitor.
Casino German, Graben (Na PrikopS) 26, hall for lectures,
balls, concerts. Good restaurant, beautiful garden.
Clementinum. Altstadt, Mariienplatz (Mariansk6 n&mSsti) 5,
then Ereuzherrnplatz (EH2ovuick6 n&mSsti). Archeological Insti-
tution every Sunday from 11 — 1, and every Wednesday from
12 — 1 o'clock; no admission fee paid. Apply to the janitor.
Collection of coins and antiquities on application to the professor
of the history of arts. University-library from 11 — 1 o'clock.
Sunday and holidays excepted. Reading-hours from 9—1 o'clock.
P. M. from 3—6. Observatory on application there. Refectory in
the sem. Application at the gate there.
German-historical Union. Altstadt, Liliengasse (Liliovd ulice)
7. Library, antiquities, documents, coins and a rich collection of
copper-prints. Application to the secretary there.
FerdinoMddisches Lustschloss in the Chotek-grounds. Famous
renaisance building. Frescoes. See Hofburg.
FUrstenberg's Palace. Eleinseite, Waldsteingasse (YaldStyn-
8k& ulice.) Splendid garden. Library. Cabinet of coins and gems.
Application to the librarian.
Picture-Gallery and copper-print- cabinet in the Rudolphinum.
Wednesday, Friday and Sunday from 11 — 3 o'clock, no fee. Tues-
day, Thursday and Saturday from 11— -3 o'clock. Admission 60 h.
*) On application or for a small donation admission is to be
had everywhere, even besides the fixed time.
1*
VI
Picture'Exhibition, permanent, of the dealer in works of art
of Nic. Lehmann, Ferdinandstrasse (Ferdinandova trida) 5. Daily
from 9—5. Admission fee 40 h.
Ficture-GoMery of Prince Eohan, Eleinseite, Earmelitergasse
(Karmelitski ulice) 8. When asked.
GeorgS'Ghv/rch. Hradschin. Sepulchre. Tombs. Application to
the janitor in the house to the left.
TradeS'MtLseuM and Library of Y. N&prstek, Betlehemsplatz
(Betlemsk^ ndmSsti) at Hal&nek'a. Admission to the collections
on application in the reading-room, daily from 10—12 o'clock,
Trades-Union. Gallikloster, Rittergasse (Rytirskd ulice) 35.
Models, machines, library. The last opened daily except on
Thursday from 10—12 and from 4—8 o'clock; on Sundays and
holidays from 9 — 2 o'clock.
Jewish Cemetery, old. Josefstadt (Hampasgasse) (Na Hampase).
Always open. Application in the office there.
The royal Castle on the Hradchin. Old Diet-Chamber, Old
Diet-Hall, Spanish Hall, German Hall, Vladislav's Hall, Castle-
Garden and Ferdinand's Lustschloss, from 11—1 o'clock at noon,
and from 4—5 P. M. Apply in the office of the Schlosshaupt-
mannschaft, where admission-tickets may be got for 40 h.
Kinsky^s Palace. Altstadt, Grosser Ring (Velk6 ndmSsti) 16.
Library, copper-prints, wood-cuts.
KinsJcy^s Garden, Smichov. Beautiful promenade, open to the
public.
ChureheSf open daily the whole forenoon and from 31/2— 4i/j
o'clock in the afternoon.
Kreuzherrn-libraryy important Bohemicas. Apply to the libra*
rian in the cloister.
KreuzJcappelle in the Karolina Sy^tld-Gasse (ulice Earoliny
Sv6tl6), interesting building from the XIII*t century.
Industrial Museum of the Board of Commerce and of Trade
in Prague in Salnitergasse. Collections open daily, except on
Monday, from 10—3 o'clock. Admission free. The library on week-
days (except Monday) from 10 — 12 o'clock in the forenoon, and
from 5—8 o'clock in the evening. On Sundays and on holidays
from 10 — 12 o'clock in the forenoon.
Kunstverein fiir Bohmen (Society of friends of Patriotic
Art) in the Rudolphinum. The yearly exhibition from 15*i» April
till 15*1^ May daily from 9—6 o'clock. Admission: On weekdays
1 K, on Sundays and holidays 60 h. Family-tickets for 3 per-
sons 2 K. Catalogue 60 h. lllustr. catalog K 1.40.
Diet-House Landtagsgebdude and Landtagssaal in the FQnf-
kirchenplatz (PStikostelni n&mSati). Daily, except on days of
session. Apply to the door-keeper.
LobkoviC'Pdlace, 'Eleinseite, W&lsche Gasse (VlaSskd ulice).
Collection of paintings, plaster-casts, library and a beautiful garden.
Loretto-Church and Lauretanisches Haus, in the Lorettoplatz
(Loretansk^ n&mSsti) on the Hradchin. The richest church-trea-
VII
sores in Bohemia. Only from 1. May till 15. October on Monday,
Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 9—11 o'clock. Apply in
the adjoining Capnchine-cloister. (Detailed catalogue of the church-
treasures may be had at the bookseller's or in the cloister.)
Musemn Bohemian (National) on the upper end of the Wenzels-
platz (V4claysk^ ndm^sti). Note-worthy collections open: on Sunday
from 9 — 12 o'clock on Wednesday and Saturday from 2 — 6 o'clock
no fee. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 9 — 1 o'clock, admission
60 h. On Wednesday and Saturday from 9 — 12 o'clock, and
on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 3—5 o'clock. Admission
1 E. Admission-tickets at the door-keeper.
Museum J cechoslavicm, ethnographical ^ 9—1 o'clock Kin sky
Garden. Open on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 9 — 1 o'clock
admission 50 h; Wednesday and Saturday from 9—12, admission
20 h; on Sundays and holidays from 9—12 o'clock, Wednes-
day and Saturday from 2 — 5 o'clock, no fee.
Museum Citt/y in the sm. town-park, Na Poridi. Open every
Sunday from 9—1; no fee. On Wednesday from 2—6 o'clock,
20 h for adults and 10 h for children till 10 years.
Nationaltheaier. The royal apartments to be seen on appli-
cation to the door-keeper (donation). Foyer and corridors in the
evening before the beginning of the performance.
Nostic-PaHace. Kleinseite, Maltheserplatz (Malt^zsk^ nd-
m^Bti) 1. Collections of art, library. Application to the door-
keeper.
Oberstburggrafamt, old» Hradchin, Georgsgasse (U sv. Jin) 4.
With the black tower, white tower and the Daliborka. Applica-
tion to the door-keeper.
Physiological Institution^ Neustadt, Wenzelsgasse (Ydclavskd
ulice) 29, Thursday 10—10 o'clock Medical preparations etc.
Specialists may apply to the director in the institution.
Town -hall (Bathaus) Altst&dter, Gothic Chapel. Hall of
sessions. Application to the door-keeper. The antiquities in the
Altst&dter Rathaus and especially the hall of sessions may be
seen during the hours of official business from 8 — 12 k clock in
the forenoon and from 3—6 o'clock in the afternoon, provided
there is no session in the halls just at that time.
Budolphinum, on the Rudolfsquai (N&breii kor. prince Ru-
dolfs)* Interesting building. Application in the Inspection-office
(towards the Moldau).
Strdhov, Hradchin. Church always open. Library, picture-
gallery and collection of minerals from 8^2 — IIV2* Application
to the door-keeper of the cloister.
TechniccU Highschool, German, Husgasse (Husova ulice) 5,
Bohemian in Earlsplatz (Earlovo n4mSsti) 14. Ask janitor.
Tempel, Hebrew reformed worship. Altst. Geistgasse (DuSnf
ulice). Application to the keeper in the adjoining house.
Toscand's Palace in the Hradchiner Platz (Hrad6ansk6 n&-
mdsti) on application.
VIII
Totmsten^PtwiHon on the Laurenziberg. Admission 40 h,
military persons and children 20 h.
University 'Library^ see Glementinnm.
St. Vitus ' Cathedral, Hradchin. From 5— 12V2 and from
2 — 5 o'clock. Application to the beadle. Treasury there on
application to the canonicate, also Cathedral-library.
Waldstein ' Palace, Waldsteinplatz (ValdStynske ndm^Bti).
Kleinseite. Application to the door-keeper.
Arsenal (Zeughaus) Imp. R. Kleinseite, Zeughausgasse (U zbroj-
nice) 26. Collection of weapons. Application to the commander
there.
Hints.
The magistrate of Prague published a Directory in the Bohe-
mian language in the y. 1900, a third, carefulJy revised edition, in
which addresses may be easily found. It is exposed in caf^s,
restaurants and all public places. In looking for the streets the
adjoined plan of Prague with a list of streets and squares, will
be of good service. The rectangles show, where the respective
streets are to be looked for. The houses have double numerals,
but the new ones are apparent by being painted on red or blue
tablets with white inscriptions, running in one succession, the
even on one side, the odd on the other. On every street«corner
is the name of the street (lately in the Bohemian language only)
on an iron table with a red background and a white text.
On the bridges always keep to the right. Except on the old
stone Charles-bridge 2 h are paid for a single person, 10 h for
one horse-chaise, 20 h for a two horses-chaise. Passing the town-
circumference, toll is also paid, 10 h for a one horse - chaise,
20 h for a two horse-chaise.
Elegant lavatories for ladies and gentlemen are established
in Havlidekplatz, in the large park (near the pond), in the Josefs-
platz (Josetske nimfisti), in PoriC, in the Karlsplatz (Karlovo n&-
mdsti), two on the Wenzelsplatz (VAclavske n4m6sti), in the Kohl-
markt (Uhelny trh), in the Franzensquai (FrantiSkovo n4bre4i), in
the Budolfsquai (Rudolfovo n&bre^i), in the Kleinseite and in the
Kronprinz Hudolfsanlagen. In the same clothes are cleaned.
The price for using the I. cl. cabin are 8 h, for the II. cl.
cabin 4 h.
A Short Outline of the History of Prague.
The foundation of Prague (Boh. Praha), the capital of the king-
dom of Bohemia, falls into prehistoric times. The tradition
fiays about it the following: The Princess Libusha (LibuSa), whose
residence was the oldest seat of the Bohemian princes, the Vy-
shehrad (Boh. VySehrad, i. e. High Castle), built another castle
on the present Hradchin (Boh. Hradeauy), on the left bank of
the Moldau (Boh. Vltaya), at the foot of which soon sprung up a
small borough, the „older" or „smaller" town, the present Klein-
seite (Boh. MenSi Mfisto), in opposition to the „new" or „larger
town", (at present Altstadt, Boh. Star6 M§sto), which has sprung
up on the right bank of the Moldau soon after. These two bo-
roughs received afterwards the common appellation „Prague". Under
the Przemyslids, the successors of Libusha and her spouse Prze-
mysl, the town continually increased, and after the introduction
of Christianity into Bohemia under the eighth dake of this dynasty,
Borzivoj I., who himself received the baptism (873), the first chur-
ches were erected on the Hradchin and Vyshehrad.
In the year 973 Boleslav II. (967—9^9) founded a bishopric
in I^rague, and endowed a cloister for nuns in connexion with
the St. George's Church, erected by Vratislav I (912—926). In
the year 1039 on the 2S^ of August the corpse of St. Adalbert
has been transferred into the present cathedral of St. Guy, erected
by Wenzel (V4clav) the Holy (928—935). The same has been put
down by Spitihnev II. who afterwards built a more spacious edi-
fice, which suffered very much from tire during a siege of Prague
by Konrad of Znaim, which destroyed entirely the adjoining St.
George's cloister. '
In the 12*ii century Judith, the spouse of Vladislav II.
(1140 — 1173), built the first stone bridge across the Moldau, but
which fell in during the ice-drift in the year 1342. Under the
king Wenzel I. (1230—1253), who was also famous as a poet, es-
pecially under the reign of his son Ottokar II. (1253-1278), who
did all, to further the growth of a strong citizenship, Prague had
an epoch of prosperity and splendour.
Commerce and art flourished, magnificent churches were
erected, cloisters on a large scale were founded, and Prague had
then with in its walls a real and in every way a royal court;
the richest spiritual and wordly orders of knights took here their
residence, and a general wellfare prevailed among the citizens, who
had a considerable accession from the German element, enjoying
special favour of the ruler. The Germans, settled in Prague, ac-
quired under Sobfislav II. (1173 — 1178) town-rights and privileges
for their quarter on the grounds of the present Porzitsh (Boh.Na
poriCi), and German culture and Germans were favoured and
protected.
After the extinctioxL of the Przemyslids (with Wenzel III.
1306), the German Luxenburgs succeeded to the Bohemian
throne; Charles the IV**^ (1346—1878) raised the capital of Bohemia
to such a height that it rivalled the greatest towns of Europe in
that time as to size, splendour and significance. He inyited to
his court the most famous artists and scholars, and adorned Prague
with edifices and institutions, which call forth admiration even in our
days, and justly gained him the surname ^Father of the country*'.
When still a crown-prince, he began the building up of a new
residence on the Hradchin and raised the bishopric of Prague
to an archbishoprir. He laid the foundation of the beautiful ca-
thedral of St. Guy and of the New-Town of Prague (1348),
which could show in the shortest time seven churches and cloisters.
In the year 1348 he founded the first university in Middle-Europe,
and in the year 1357 he began the construction of the stone-
bridge, called after him „ Charles's Bridge**. His reign is also the
beginning of the fiist considerable art-epoch in Bohemia; in the
year 1348 the painters of Prague, the oldest guild in the German
Empire, were ordered to draw up their statutes. la architecture
great triumphs were achieved by the works of Mathias of Arras,
the originator of the cathedral of St. Guy and of the first
architect of the magnificent Earlshof ; by Peter Parler of Gmfind,
who overspanned the river Moldau with the Charles's Bridge. In
the same degree commerce and trades flourished under the gui-
dance and example of masters, who following the invitation of the
liberal monarch, flocked from Germany, Italy, even from the East
to Prague as teachers of the natives. Under his son Wenzel IV»
(1378—1419) began the world-wide known religious and national re-
formation, which proved so eventful for Prague and Bohemia. By
the zral and instigation of John Hus, preacher in Bethlehem
Chapel and teacher to the university of Prague, king Wenzel IV.
decided on the 19*1^ Januar 1409, that henceforth in all matters
touching the university, the Bohemian nation should have three
votes, and the remaining nations together but one.
This induced many thousands of students (mostly German),
as well as professors to leave Prague (1409), and the teaching of
II us, based on the writings of Wycliffe and tending to an entire
separation from the common church, fell on fertile ground in the
university and in the opulent city. When it became known in
Bohemia, that he was burned in Constance (1415) as a heretic,
terrible tumults broke out in Prague, which inaugurated the
bloody Hussite war. The prelude to it took place in Prague by
hurling the New- town counsellors out of the window (30*^ July
1419), who fell on the spears of the Hussites, passing the town-
hall in a procession from St. Steven's church. The Hussite war,
which now began with the greatest violence, lasted from 1419—1436,
destroyed the welfare of Bohemia, and the whole land was cover-
ed with smoking ruins of destroyed cities, castles, churches and
cloisters; the architectonic and art-monumeots in Prague suffered
most, for Prague played a prominent political part in these reli-
gious wars, and became by turn a prey of the contending parties. The
attempt of Sigismund (Wenzels brother, 1419 — 1437) to take pos-
sesBion of Prague, and to restore peace recoiled from the stabborn
opposition of the Hussites, who repeatedly yanquished and put
to flight Sigismund's imperial army, and the most notable victory
has been gained on the mount Vitkov, which is also called Ziiikov
(£i2kaberg) after the leader of the Hussites. George of Poddbrad
(1458—1471) put an end to this war and the civil strife, having
captured Prague (on the S^ Dec. 1448) by a bold attack. Ten
years later (1458) he was crowned as king of Bohemia and resided
in the Old-town in the EOniginhof. Prague owes him the erec*
tion of the bridge-towers in the Little-town and the completion
of the front and the towers of the Teynkirche (Tynsky kostel).
Vladislav II. (1471—1516) also promoted architecture zealously, as
the Pulverthurm (Pra§n4 br&na) shows, built by the stone-hewer
Wenzel and then by Math. Reysek (1475), and the Homage- or
Vladislav's Hall in the Hradchin - Castle. Under his reiga the
power and selfimportance of the citizens reached an uncommon
height; the Old- town and New-town united again in 1518 under a
common council and fought repeatedly against the nobility, yea
their stubborn pride turned even against the king, who anxious for
his life (1490) took his residence in Ofen. Ferdinand I, who
according to an agreement of inheritance ascended the Bohemian
throne in 1526, suppressed the revolts with a strong hand and
the Old-town and the New-town were again separated, and each
got its own magistrates.
A new uprising of the inhabitants of Prague against Ferdi-
nand (1546—1547) ended with a complete humiliation of the towns.
A fire, which broke out on the 2^^Ju\jlMl, destroyed the Little-
town, the Hradchin together with the royal castle, the cathedral,
the Register of landed property etc.
Under Rudolph II (1576—1612) Prague enjoyed a new golden
era. Artists and scholars, among that number Tycho de Brahe,
Kepler, John of Aachen and others were gathered in the castle
of Prague, in which Rudolph resided for the greater part of his
reign, which lasted 36 years, and which he filled with remarkable
treasures of arts. Every- where new edifices rose, numerous insti-
tutions were dedicated to the promotion of intellectual culture,
commerce and trade florished again and welfare spread again in
towns and in the whole country. But peace did not last long.
The majority of the protestant estates compelled emperor Rudolph
to sign a Declaration of his Majesty, which roused jealosy and
discontent among the parties, and soon after Prague became again
the scene of bloody events. l?he 28^ May 1618 became a landmark
in the history of Prague, of Bohemia and of central Europe. On
this day the imperial ministers Martinic and Slavata, together with
the clerk Fabricius were thrown out of the window of the council-hall
by the same members of the Bohemian estates, whose anger was
roused in consequence of a protestant church having been closed.
This was the commencement of the Thirty-years war, during which
Prague has been captured thrice ; for the first time after the battle
on the White Mount (S^^ November 1620), in which Friderik V.
/■
of the Palatinate, elected king by the Bohemians, was vanquished,
and Maximilian of Bavaria took the capital in behalf of the em-
peror, who subjected the adherents of Frederik Y., called „Winter-
king**, to a bloody trial and ordered twenty seven of them to be
beheaded in front of the town-hall in the Old-town square* By
this protestantism in Bohemia seemed entirely crushed, as the
majority jDf its adherants left the country.
Numerous foreign monks took now possession of the chur-
ches and cloisters; the Jesuits erected in the Little-town and in
the New-town new edifices for their order (1625—1633). For the
second time Prague was taken by the Saxons under Amim in
November of the year 1631, who ransacked it of its treasures of art
and carried them as war-booty mostly to Dresden. In the year
1682 they were driven out by Albrecht of Waldstein. The Swedes
invaded Prague for the third time under Eonigsmark on the
26*1^ July 1648 availing themselves of the treachery of Ottowalsky
von Streitberg, and besieged 8 months the Old- and New-town,
which were bravely and successfully defended by citizens and stu-
dents. The Wesphalian peace put an end to the Thirty-years
war, which commenced in Prague by the defenestration; Ednig-
mark's attempt to seize Prague was his last feat of arms.
Prague enjoyed now peace nearly for hundred years (till 1740),
during which time the wounds, inflicted by war, were healed and
the city throve materially. Architecture and sculpture began to
flourish. In all public places we meet with specimens of the ba-
roque style (Strahov - church, cupola of the church of the Order
of the Gross, Mary- statue on the Altst&dter square etc.)
In the years 1679 and 1680 a plague raged in Prague, which
carried off about 32.000 people. In the year 1689 a great fire de-
stroyed the Jewish town and a large part of the Altstadt and
Neustadt.
The Austrian Succession war brought fresh misfortunes. In
the year 1741, on the 26*^ November, an army consisting of Bava-
rians, Saxons and the French, occupied the city and Earl Albert
was crowned king of Bohemia as Earl YIL, but soon after he
retired. The French remained, though an army of Maria Theresia
has shut up the city and bombarded it fiercely from the 15^^ Au-
gust till 13*1^ September. Till on the 2^^^ January 1743 she gave
up the siege having been compelled to it by hunger, prevailing in.
the whole of Bohemia. In the year 1744 Prague was besieged
again by the Prussians, who took possession of it on the 17'^ Sep-
tember under general Einsiedel, and held it till 2Q*^ November.
Much more terrible and disastrous was the siege, which Friderick
the Great lay to the city in the year 1757. For 19 days (from the
30^1^ May till the 18^^ June) the capital was bombarded by the
Prussians, whose missiles destroyed the most memorable monu-
ments of art. The Cathedral, the Royal Castle, and most of
the churches were destroyed by 80.000 balls either entirely, or
seriously damaged and 880 houses lay in ruins. By the glorious
victory of the imperial army under Daun near Eolin (18th June)
the distressed city was liberated at last, and the traces of the
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havock of these three dreadful weeks have not been entirely e£faced
till to this day.
Josef II. (1780—1790) abolished many of the 117 chnrches
and cloisters in Prague, which wore either entirely demolished
or adapted for other purposes, as offices, hospitals, barracks, sto-
res etc. Thereby the outward appearance of Prague, the dty of
hundred towers, has been materially changed, and its four magi-
stracies have been united into one in 1784.
In the same year Prague suffered from a dreadful flood.
Under the Austrian emperors Francis I. and Ferdinand I.
a great number of scientific and beneficial institutions were foun-
ded (Conservatory, Museum, Trades-union, Academy of Painting).
In the same time many places of public resorts, gardens and
parks, as well as the Francis-quay have sprung up. Since the
Seven- years war Prague was no more troubled with war events
except the riots in the year 1848 (Pentecost- revolution). Till on
the 8*1^ July 1866 Prague was occupied by the Prussians, after
the defeat of the Austrians in the battle of KOniggrfttz, the ca-
pital having been deserted by Austrian troops and authorities.
On the 23^ Angust 1866 at llVa o'clock at night in the Hotel
„Blue Star^ (chamber No. 6) the „Peace of Prague" was signed,
and on the 18^i> September the last Prussian troops left the city.
In the latter years the ramparts of the New-town were re-
moved and beautiful public gardens were planted in their stead.
The consequence of it was, that the town could be enlarged,
and the town-authorities are doing their best to raise and to adorn
the town. New quays, bridges, monuments and magnificent edifices
have been erected, former monuments properly repaired, and
Prague produces the impression partly of a modern flourishing city,
and partly of an entirely mediaeval town, especially as regards
the Altstadt and Eieinseite.
Topography and Statistics.
Prague is almost the geographical centre of Bohemia and
lies 50® 5' 19" of northern latitude and 32o 6' 8" of east longi-
tude (Ferro). The city, picturequely situated between two hills
on both sides of the Moldau, consists of seven parts or wards,
designated by Roman ciphers: Altstadt (I. 42.332 inh.), Neustadt
(II. 75.734 inh.), Josephstadt (V. 11.535 inh.) and Vyshehrad (VI.
4.546 inh.) on the right bank; Eieinseite (III. 20.447 inh.) Hrad-
chin (IV. 5.805 inh. and Holeshovic-Bubna (VII. 15.352 inh.) on
the left bank of the Moldau, which compose the inner town with
175.751 inh.). Besides there are the suburbs: Earlin (Karolinen-
thal) 19.554 inh., Smichov 32.693 inh., Er41ovsk6 Vinohrady (Egl.
Weinberge) 34.536 inh. and Zi^kov 41.236 inh., together 128.109 inh.,
so that the number of all the inhabitants reaches far beyond a
quarter of a million. The proportion of the Slavonic 6echs to
the Germans is 6*3:1. The Boman catholic religion prevails;
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there are also more than 8000 protestants and 17.000 Jews. The
town is divided into 22 parochial districts and has 58 catholic,
4 protestant, 1 Russian church and 10 synagogues; 60 steeples
and 22 city- towers rise towards the sky. Eight bridges cross the
Moldau, four stone bridges (Charles's, Palackys', Francis' and a
railway bridge) three constructed of iron (Francis- Joseph's, a rail-
way connecting bridge, a chain bridge and a wooden bridge. The
town is governed by a Town Board, consisting of 90 numbers of
which 24 constitute the Town Council, and a Magistrate. At the
head of both stands the Mayor and two Vice-mayors. Prague is
the seat of a Diet and of the highest authorities (k. k. Statthal-
terei, k. u. k. General-Commando, k. k. Finanzlandea-Direction,
High Court of Law, Chief Police-office, Chief Post-office), of an
Archbishop with a consistory and of numerous educational insti-
tutions; 1 German and 1 Bohemian Universities; 1 German and
1 Bohemian Polytechnical Institutions, many German and Bohe-
mian gymnasiums, Realgymnasiums and Real-schools, 1 German
Lyceum for girls, 1 Bohemian Young Ladies' School etc. Great is
the number of special schools of which we mention. Academy of
Art, Industrial School, the German and Bohemian Commercial
academies. Musical Conservatory and the Organ school. Societies
flourish and promote successfully the artistic, scientific, philan-
throptic and social aims of the inhabitants.
A Stroll round the City.
We begin oar wandering with the Altstadt^ which is of
special historical interest for the natives and strangers,
on account of the many ancient buildings. It has a conside-
rable traffic and is the seat of many scientific institutions.
At the east-entrance between the Hyberner- and Zeltner-
gasse (Hybernskd and Celetnd ulice) rises
the Pulverturm (Powder-Tower). It was one of the
eight gate-towers, which defended the entrance into the Alt-
stadt at a time, when the latter had its own fortifications
and was separated from the Neustadt by a broad ditch.
This tower, made in the late gothic style, was erected by
the Altstadt citizens in honour of Vladislav II, under whose
government this kind of architecture flourished greatly in
Bohemia. It was commenced in the year 1475 by the mason
Wenzel, and finished in the 16*^ century by the rector of
the Teyn-school, Mathias Reysek. Its name may be traced
to the 18*^ century, when it served as a powderstore.
At the corner between the Zeltnergasse (Celetn& ulice)
and the Obstmarkt (Ovocn;^ trh) stands the building of the
Civil Courts of Law. The spouse of king Georg PodSbrad
resided there. On the upper end of the Obstmarkt rises the
Landestheater (German Theatre). It has been erected
by count Nostic-Rienek in 1781, and in 1798 bought by
the Bohemian Estates. Since 1861 it is property of the
country. Opposite at the corner of the Eisengasse (Zeleznd
ulice) stands the old university:
The CaroUnum. Originally on this spot stood a house
erected in 1363 by the imp. Master of Mint Job. Rothlew ;
King Wenzel bought it in 1383 and designed it for a High-
school, founded by Charles IV*^. The present appearance of
the university building, named after its founder, dates from 1781.
The inscription on the chief front »LEX OIYIUM DUX**
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dates from 1687. In the first floor there is the spacious
Promotionssaal, in which Magister Johannes Hus roused re-
ligious and national zeal hy his disputes; it contains many
portraits of Bohemian kings, Chancellors and Rectors of the
university, and was materially transformed by Joseph 11.
There is also in the same floor a small „ Promotionssaal"
(where degrees are conferred) and the small Chapel of St.
Cosmas and Damian in the gothic bay-window, dating from
the XIV*^ century and repaired now. In the corridor there
is a red marble memorial -plate with a portrait of the Bo-
hemian scholar Matthaeus CoUinus of Chotefina, and several
Latin and Greek inscriptions having reference to him, placed
there by Jacob Palaeologos of Chios, a descendant ot the By-
zantine emperors, in gratitude for a hospitable reception in
1566. The archives contain several very interesting docu-
ments from the time of Charles IV*^ and Wenzel IV*^.
Opposite rises the Galligebaude formerly cloister of the
Carmelites, contains at present the localities of the Trades-
Union with a public library with more than 13.000 volumes.
The behind adjoining 8t Qallichurch dates from the XIII*^ cent,
and was in the XY. and XYI. cent, one of the most import-
ant utraquistic churches. There is the tomb of the Bohe-
mian painter Karl Skreta (f 1674), a chief altar-piece by
Rainer and in the Mary Chapel a Crucifix almost in full
life size by J. F. Prokov (f 1713) carved in wood.
On the grounds of the former old theatre in the Kotzen
(v Kotcich) farther away from the St. Gallikirche the
StMtische Sparkassa {Savings - Bank of the City of
Prague) a magnificent edifice in the renaisance style has been
erected, ornamented with the armoury of the former town-
quarters and laid in with square sand-stones.
Through the Melantrichgasse (Melantrichova ulice) we.
come to the
Orossen Bing (Yelk6 n&mSstl). The same is an irregular
square and is one of the most memorable places of the
town, in which formerly tournaments, homages to royalty
and other public festivals and judicial assemblies took place.
In the middle of the square rises the Mary- column a mo-
nolith with a statue of St. Mary, by the sculptor Pendel,
erected by Ferdinand III** in 1650 in memory of the libe-
ration of the Altstadt from the Swedes.
The Town Hall.
Many of the buildings are of the highest interest,
especially the
Bathaus (Town-hall) on the W. side whose present
appearance is the result of many changes and additions. The
east front has been renewed in 1838 — 1848 in the gothic
style, is richly adorned with mason-work by Kranner and
Jedli^ka, and with statues of six rulers: SpitihnSv II.,
Karl IV., Ferdinand III., Francis I. and Ferdinand the I.
who deserved well of Bohemia, by J. Max. The corner-
tower with the curious clock, dating partly from the 14. cen-
tury, and the south front ornamented with many gay armou-
ries, with the fine gothic portal, being the entrance to the
Council-Chamber, erected in 1880, bear their original cha-
racter. The dainty gothic bay-window of the Chapel St.
Lawrence is the oldest part, and dates from 1381; in the
year 1857 it has been repaired.
The town archives, contained in the town-hall, are of
high value for the history of Prague. The astronomic clock,
a remarkable work of art by master Hanus from the y. 1490
was for a long time out of repair, and only on the Sylvester-
night 1865/6 it was again set agoing* It shows and stri-
kes the hours according to the present and the mediaeval
division of time (24 hours), shows further the sun-rise and
sun-set the lunar quarters, the zodiac, the festivals of the year
etc. At the stroke of every hour 2 windows open above
the clock and the 1 2 Apostles with Christ pass with an au-
tomatic movement. On the one side there is the movable
figure of Death, which rings, and the figure of a man with
a money-bag, which shakes its head, and above the clock
there is a cock, crowing amusingly after every stroke of the
clock. The calendary-disk, painted by LiSka, is the copy
of a valuable original painting by J. Manes, kept in the
town-museum.
The sights in the town-hall are : The old Council-Cham-
ber, in which the imperial fieldmarshal Rosswurm was be-
headed in 1605; the old Council-hall, erected by Vladislav II
in gothic style, with ceiling-beams richly adorned with car-
vings ; an old stove, several statues and escutcheons of civil
guilds; the Primator-hall with portraits of all the mayors
since the XVI*^ century, and the new Assembly-hall with
a colossal painting by Broilk: „Hus before the Council"
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and ^Election of Georg of PodSbrad king of Bohemia". Be-
hind the Town-hall rises the St Niclaschurch, which belon-
ged formerly to the Slavonic Benedictine cloister, and in the
year 1870 was hired by the Bussian'Orthodox-Church com-
munity and adjusted for that worship. The frescoes in the
apsis and cupola are by P* Maixner, the pictures on the
ikonostas painted on golden background, and in the wing-
chapels are by Mukaf evski ; the stucco-work on the ikonostas
by Effenberger.
The Prmce Kinsky's Palace on the east side of the
square, a large edifice in rococo style, has been begun
in the middle of the previous century by K. I. Dienzen-
hofer and completed according to his plans by Anselm
Luragho. The library in the back-building contains about
47.000 volumes, and among that number rare editions of the
Bible and about 200 incunables, many Bohemicas, further
500 volumes copper-prints, 20 maps with pictures (600 by
Albrecht Diirer), charters, plans etc. Close to the Kinsky's
palace rises
the Teinkirche (Teinchutch) with its two towers above
a building with arcades, the famous Tein-school in the
Middle ages. It was already in the XIV, century one
of the four chief parochial churches of the Altstadt. Kich
German merchants laid the foundation of this gothic church,
but the completion of it was interrupted by the Hussite
wars, in the course of which it became the chief church
of the utraquists and continued to be till 1621. Georg
of Podfibrad completed the building (from 1458 — 1463)
and at the advice of J. Rokycana, a stone statue of
Georg was placed in a niche of the facade with a large
chalice above it. After the battle of the White Hill it
was superseded by the present Mary-statue. On the
10*^ June 1679 a lightening struck into the roof, set
it on fire, and the gothic vault of the nave fell in.
According to the then prevailing taste it was erected anew
in round arches and with jonic pillars. The one of the
two towers, which are 79*97 m high and each adorned
with side-turrets, the left has been again damaged by ligh-
tening on the 29 July 1819, and renewed again in 1834/5,
From the Teinlane you enter the church through a beautiful
portal, ornamented with rich gothic architecture and the
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history of the suffering of our Lord in high relief, which is
also remarkable, that instead of the customary pointed arches,
after the manner of Peter Parler, round arches have been
^^laced into the inner of the three-nayed church, the middle
nave of which surpasses the two side naves almost by the
I Vialf and has a length of 57 m. The church contains a great
number of remarkable objects. The chief altar, executed in
the renaisance-style of the XVIP^ century, adorns an Ascen-
sion of Christ by Skreta, who painted also the other pictu-
res. On the chief altar of the left nave there is a large
wooden Crucifix from the XV*^ century, and close by to the
left an old wood-carving from the XV*^ century and a Pietk
with 6 side-figures. In the right side-nave in the Mary-
chapel there is a gothic altar with paintings by Lhota and
statues by Vesely ; close by to the left, the double statue in
above life-size of the Slavian apostles Cyril and Methodius
of Carraro marble by £m. Max, and near by an ancient
font, in pewter, dating from 1414. On the first pillar to
the right is the red-marble tombstone of the celebrated Da-
nish astronomer Tycho de Brahe, who died in Prague on
the 24*^ October 1601 ; on the second pillar to the right
is the ancient pulpit, dating from the XV*^ century, which
was repaired in 1846, and on the opposite pillar to the
left, above the altar of St. Luke, is a large gothic canopy
of stone, hewn by Mathias Reysek, a remainder of the
mausoleum of the utraquistic bishop Augustinus Lucianus,
whose bones have been dug out after the battle of the
White Hill and burnt together with others. The vestry
is older than the church, just as the so called Ludmilla
Chapel behind the vestry (now partly demolished), which
presents itself as the southern tower of the ante Caroline,
and in the beginning of the XIV*^ century completed Tein-
church. Behind the Teinchurch is
The Teinhof (Tj^nsk;^ dvur) or the Alte Ungeld. This
building was in the earliest time probably a hospital and
a shelter for strangers, mostly German merchants, who were
obliged to lodge here, in order that their paying the taxes
might be controlled. The name is derived from t^niti (um-
zliunen — to fence in); the designation „Altes Ungeld" is
also based on the levelling of the said indirect tax on salt
and wine, which was paid here.
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The St, Jakcibs-Church behind the Teinhof was erected
together with the adjoining Minoritenkloster in the 14**" cen-
tury. It is the longest church in Prage (78 w), has three
naves and the interior is strikingly gloomy. Remarkable
are: The chief altar painting by Wenzel Rainer from the
year 1739; several pictures by Brandel, and especially the
artful marble memorial of the Bohem. Chancellor Count L.
V. Vratislav of Mitrovic (f 1712), erected by the sculptor
Ferd. Prokov, on the left side of the entrance in a side-hall.
Ou our return we pass the grossen and kleinen Ring,
in the centre of which there is a remarkable old well with
a beautiful iron railing from the year 1560, and find our-
selves in the Husgasse (Husova tfida) before
the Count Clam-Qallas' Palace^ one of the most pro-
minent edifices in the baroque style, erected by Fischer von
Erlach in 1707 — 1712. The numerous statues in the facade
are by Math. Braun, the ceiling-frescoes by an Italian
artist. The portal is adorned with beautiful karyatides.
The St, AegidiuS'Church and Cloister of the Dominicans,
further on in the Husgasse (Husova ti'fda) to the left, for
the greater part in gothic style, was founded in 1301 by
the bishop Johannes of Dra2ic and consecrated by arch-
bishop Ernst of Pardubic in 1371; the escutcheons of both
are placed on the chief portal. In the right naves rests
Wenzel Rainer, who painted the frescoes of the cupola and
of the ceiling. Opposite this church is
the German Technical Highschool in the former St. Wen-
leVs seminary of the Jesuits, abolished in the year 1773.
From the upper end of the Husgasse branches oflF
the Betlehemplat^ (Betlemsk6 ndmSstf), deriving its name
from the Bethlehem-Chapel, founded here by the knight
Joh. MQhlheim in 1391, and in which Magister Job. Hus
was appointed preacher from 1400 — 1414. In the y. 1786
it has been entirely demolished. Above the door-way of
the house No 7 to the right, in which Hus formerly dwelled,
there is the inscription: „Zde bydlel Mistr Jan Hus. „Here
lived Magister John Hus"). To the west of this square
in the house No 1 (u Haldnkfi) Anna Fingerhut (Ndprstek)
founded in the year 1873
the Bohemian Industrial Museum, It contains Bohe-
mian textile and valuable articles of manufacture, productions
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of Chinese and Japanese industry etc, and a library con-
taining 30.000 volumes, collected by V. Ndprstek, and open
to everybody.
In the Convictgasse (Konviktskd ulice) leading on into
the Postgasse (Postovskd ulice) now ul. Karoliny SvStl^ there
stands at the corner
the Kreuisilcapelle, a rotunde in Koman style from the
Kill. cent. First it was a parish -church, but it was abo-
Mshed in 1784 and sold to private persons. The Art-So-
ciety „Um§lecka Beseda** has put it into perfect repair
in 1863 — 65. Opposite stands the fine Bohemian Sfaafs-
gewerheschule (Prumyslovd Skola), erected in 1890.
From the Postgasse (Po§tovskd ulice) we get to
the Framensquai (FrantiSkovo ndbfe^i), presenting a be-
autiful view of the Moldau, the islands, the bridges and of
left bank of the MoJdau: it* stretches from the Sofieninsel till
to the Mills of Altstadt. There we see the Kleinseite
(Maid Strana) and beyond the pronged, so called Hunger-
wall enclosing the Laurentiusberg (Nebozizek) and the Lau-
ren tins- church together with the outlook-tower. Farther
on to the right there is Strahov with its church, and the
Hradschin with Ferdinand's pleasure-seat above the ancient
stone Karlsbrttcke (Karluv most). Almost in the centre
of the quay rises on lovely grounds
the Fran/senS'Monument. The monument, executed by
the architect Eranner (16*6 m high) has an octagonal basis
out of which rises an obelisk-like structure, the interior of
which occupies an equestrian statue of the Emperor
Francis }., cast in iron from a model by J. Max. On these
pillars are eight allegoric figures : Science, Art, Peace,
Abundance, Agriculture, Mining, Industry and Commerce.
Out of the basis of the monument rise 17 statues, representing
the city of^Prague and the former 16 districts of Bohemia.
All these figures have been made by J. Max. On the
southern end of the Francis Quay
the National Theatre was erected after the plans of
Prof. J. Zltek in the years 1868—1883, and the expen-
ses were defrayed by public contributions of the whole
country.
Opposite the National Theatre stands the Count La-
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^ansky's palace, and adjoining to it the magnificent stru-
cture of
the JBohmische Sparkassa (Bohemian Savings -bank).
In the front of the National Theatre is the Sophien-Island
(Zoflnsk^ ostrov), connected with the Francis-quay by an iron
bridge. It contains beautiful grounds, shady avenues, a
good restaurant and is a favorite resort of the society of
Prague. In the summermonths regular concerts take place
there in the afternoons.
The Ferdinaadstrasse is connected with the Eleinseite
and Smichov by the new stone Franzensbridge (FrantiSkfiv
most), which has been constructed instead of the old suspension
bridge. A staircase led from the same to the SchUtzen-
island (Stifeleck;^ ostrov), a shooting-place of the Rifle-men
corpse of the citizens of Pragac. It contains a beautiful
park, a good restaurant and is the staple-place of the Ro-
wing-Club of Prague. On the northern end of the Franzens-
quai are the Altstadt-Mills and the water -house, which
were set on fire in the uprising of Prague in 1848 by the
imperial troops, posted on the bastion. Through the two
arch-ways at the upper end of the Postgasse we reach the
Kreuzherm-Platz (Kfi2ovnick6 ndmSstf), and to the east of it is
the Clementinum^ an extensive building, commenced by
the Jesuits in 1653 and finished in the XVIII"" cent. II
comprises 4 courts, has 2 churches, 4 large and 2 smalt
towers and occupies an area of 1*904 hekt., on which for-
merly stood 3 churches, 1 cloister, 32 houses, 2 gardens
etc. Emperor Ferdinand I. called the Jesuits to Prague,
and these used the Clementinum as college and monastic
house. After the abolition of this order the building became
property of the University. Very remarkable are:
The St Salvatorchurchj erected by the Jesuits in the
y. 1578 — 1602 in renaissance style. Under a balcony,
resting o 3 arches to the west, 3 marble portals lead into
the church. The statues on the front were made by the
sculptor to the court, Pendel ; the chiefaltar- painting (a copy
of Raphael) Transfiguration of Christ, was painted by Hering.
The Mary Ascension (Walsche Kapelle) chapel or Italian-
chapel in the grosse Karlsgasse is a rotund built by the
Jesuits from contributions of the Italian Congregation in
Prague in 1690, and contains a beautiful altar-painting by
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J. Bergler (copy of Tizian), and in the vestry is a picture
by Skreta.
The adjoining St. Clemens-Church, after which the whole
block of buildings is named, has been erected by the Jesuits
in 1711 — 1715 and is distinguished for the excellent
acoustics of its vault. The frescoes are by Rainer, a St. Leo-
nard is painted by Brandel.
The Archiepiscopal Seminary with a beautiful refectorium.
In the first court there is a statue of a student by E. Max,
erected in 1864 in memory of the brilliant defence of the
Altstadt by the students againts the Swedes (1648).
The Archeological and numismatic collection.
The Imp. roy. observatory, a tower with an atlas-bear-
ing statue. The rich collection of astronomical and mathe-
matical instruments contains sextants of Tycho de Brahe
and of emperor Rudolph II.; further the so called Traut-
mansdorf s clock from the XIV. or XV. cent. etc.
The Imp. roy. University Library and reading room
with 184.000 volumes, among them 1528 incunables, and
above 3800 manuscripts. The foundation of this collection
was laid by the old university library of the Emperor
Charles IV. (bibliotheca coUegii Carolini), which has been
transferred into the college of the Jesuits in 1622, and be-
came university property after the abolition of that order.
Opposite the Clementinum to the north of the Ereuz-
herrnplatz rises
the Kreueherrn-Church of St. Francis Seraph, and the
cloister of the Kreuzherrnorden with the red star. The
church is built in the Italian renaissance style and is con-
sidered, as to its architectonic harmony, the finest in the
town. It was built in the y. 1672 — 1688 and renewed
in 1851 — 1852. The fine oval cupola is by Rainer, the
painting of the chief altar is by Li§ka. The cloister- buil-
ding, erected in 1662, has a large library with very valuable
manuscripts as to the history of Bohemia. Admission to
inspect the church is given in the cloister. In front of the
Ereuzherrnkirche stands
the Monument of Charles IV. erected on'the 500*^ anni-
versary of the foundation of the University of Prague by
Charles IV., in the year 1848* The Monument is 9*48 w
high, was designed by J. C. HSlhnel in Dresden and cast
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by Burgschmidt in Nuremberg. The colossal statue of
Charles IV. is 3*8 m high, holds the foundation-bull in the
right hand and the left rests on a sword. On the pedestal
in niches the four symbolic figures of the four faculties are
placed. On the blunt comers there are the effigies of four
eminent contemporaries of the emperor. On the front to the
right, Ernst of Pardubic, the first Archbishop and Chancellor
of the university; to the left Oczko of Vlashim, second
Archbishop of Prague; on the reverse to the right, Benesh
of Kolovrat, who saved the life of Charles IV. on the bridge
of Pisa ; to the left Mathias of Arras, who built the cathedral
of St. Guy. On the pedestal there is the inscription : Carolo
quarto auctori suo literarum universitas. Festo seculari quinto
1848. On the west of the Kreuzherrnkirche rises
the Altstddter Bruckenturm {the Bridge-Tower of the
Old Town) of the Emperor Charles Bridge. It was erected
under Charles IV. and Wenzel IV. and renewed in 1874 till
1879, its gothic style having been preserved. Its solidity
was subjected to a brilliant test during the Thirty Years
war. It resisted the shots of the Swedes for four weeks,
and its brave defenders, consisting of the citizens of Prague
and the students, have never wavered, A Latin inscription
on the side of the bridge, refers to this event. The front of
the tower towards the Altstadt is richly ornamented ; in the
uppermost niches we see the statues of the patron-saints
St. Guy and Adalbert, the statue of St. Sigismund, together
with the sitting figures of the emperor Charles IV. and king
Wenzel IV. on both sides. The armorial bearings in heraldic
gay colours represent the provinces, united under the scepter
of Charles, the Roman-German empire, Prague etc. The
kingfisher in a blue loop, appearing several times, is an
emblem of king Wenzel IV. On the vault of the thoroughfare
are wall-paintings. The heads of the executed nobles on
the Altstadter Ring on the 21. June 1621, were hung up
in an iron cage till 1637 in this tower, which also contains
a small museum.
The KarlshrUcTce (Charles bridge), called gene-
rally the Stone Bridge, unites the Altstadt with the Elein-
seite, and is the oldest, as well as the most interesting in
every respect of all the bridges of Prague. A wooden bridge
existed in the locality of the present as early as the XII.
The Bridge Tower of tbe Old Tui i
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century, which Vladislav's I. spouse Judith replaced by a stone
one, about the year 1170. It was destroyed by an ice-drift
in the year 1342, after which the present stone bridge was
commenced by the emperor Charles IV., its foundation stone
was laid on the 9*^ July 1357. The construction was car-
ried on by Peter Parler of Gmtind. It was often damaged
by floods and finished only in the year 1503. The bridge
has 16 arches, is 5*05 m long, 10*27 m wide and adorned
with many statues of saints of stone and iron. Some of
them, especially the former date from XVIII., the latter
from the year 1853—1859.
To the statue of St. Johann of NepomuJc, patron-saint
of Bohemia, pilgrimages are performed every year on the
16*^ May, the day of death of the saint; many thousands
of pilgrims flock there from Bohemia and Moravia, to per-
form their devotion. Not far from this statue, this saint is
said to have been flung into the river by order of king
Wenzel, because, according to a tradition, he refused to betray
the secret, confided to him by the queen in the confessional.
On the left bridge-pillar (with St. Vincent and Prokop),
on the bank of the island Eampa, to which leads a double
stair-case, rises the so called statue of Brunzvik, a figure
of a knight with the city-arms and an unsheathed sword.
The upper part of this statue, probably identical with the
known Rolland-pillars, and therefore a sign of the Mart-
staple rights of the city, has been shot off by a Swedish
ball in 1648. The remaining lower part has been replaced
by an immitation executed by Simek in 1884. The bridge
has on its end the two
Kleinseitner Bruckenturme, (the Bridge - Tower of
the Little Town) which have been thoroughly repaired in 1878.
The smaller tower is older and probably was the bridge- head
of the Judith-bridge ; the larger one has been built by Georg
of Pod^brad, and of the same date is the doubly arched gate
with crenelled breastwork between the two towers, forming
the entrance into the Kleinseite.
The Kleinseite^ {Little Town) the oldest part of Prague,
became a borough in the y. 1257 and was called the „Neue
Stadt" in contrast with the Altstadt. It received its present
name on account of its small extension. Under emperor Earl IV.
it was enlarged to its present extent. Since Hradchin be-
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came the residence of the Bohemian kings, the nohility of
^Bohemia took its residence there, and this accounts for its
namerous palaces. In the y. 1648 the Swedes captured the
Kleinseite together with the Hradchin ; since 1784 both are
united with the other parts of the town under one magi-
stracy. In the yard of the house No 14 „to the 3 bells"
in the Brttckengasse to the right, stands an old tower, adorned
with the arms of the bishop of Prague Johann IV. of Dra-
zitz, in which the bishops and archbishops of Prague resided
till it was destroyed by the Hussites.
T]ie Maltheser- Church at Maria sub catena (under the
chain) in the Badegasse (Ldzeiiskd ulice) has been erected by
king Vladislav I. for the order of the Johannites. Ottokar II.
enclosed it when fortifying the Kleinseite, with ditches and
walls, also with an iron gilt chain, whence its name. This
church is in its present state only a remainder of an old
gothic structure, which suffered much in the y. 1420 from
the Hussites, and still more from a conflagration in 1503.
In the interior are worthy of note: Mary in the clouds, on
the chief altar, and the beheading of St. Barbara, both pain-
tings by Skreta, and the memorial of the Grand-prior, count
Rudolph of CoUoredo-Wallsee, the defender of Prague against
the Swedes in the y. 1648, executed in carrara-marble. In
the Grandprioratsgebaude close by, erected in 1726, the
rich archives oft the highest Maltheserordens are kept.
The Palace of Nostic on the third Maltheserplatz
(Malt^zsk^ ndmestf) was built in the y. 1600 and contains
a rich library, a picture-gallery, numerous, very valuable
treasures of art and antiquities.
The library contains 8000 works, among them histo-
rical, medical, astronomical, mathematical and other rare
manuscripts, of which mention may be made of the manu-
script of Copernicus' chief work: „De corporum coelestium
revolutionibus." The picture-gallery contains about 400 num-
bers, in which almost all the prominent masters of the old
schools as well as more modern painters are represented.
We find here: Bloemaert, Breughel, Cranach, A. Dttrer,
A. van Dyck, J. van Dyck, L. Giordano, Guerino, Holbein,
Mieris, Mireveldt, A. van der Neer, Ostade, Potter, Poussin,
Rembrandt, Reni, S. Rosa, Rubens, Ruysdael, Velasquez,
Teniers, Tizian, P. de Vecchia, P. Veronese a. o. (Catalogue
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at the janitor's). Further are remarkable: the collections
of copperprints and coins, plaster-casts of antic and modern
itatues, busts, vessels of ivory, lapislazuli etc.
Returning into the Brflckengasse we reach the Englishen
Frduleinstift and St Joseph's Church in the Josephgasse
(Josefskd ulice); it contains two paintings by Brandel,
St. Joseph and St. Theresa. The church and cloister were
erected in the years 1656 — 1671 for the Order of the
Carmelites; in the year 1783 endowed by an English lady
Mary de Ward. Countess of Auersperg made it over to the
„Englishen FrSuleins", introduced to Prague in 1747, and who
dedicate themselves to the education of young girls. Close by is
the St. Thomas' Church and the adjoining Augustiner-
cloister destined by king Wenzel in the y. 1285 for the
Augustine-order, wearing shoes; in the y. 1420 they were
expelled by the Hussites, and the church as well as the
cloister badly devastated. They were repaired in 1497, but
a terrible conflagration, which laid the greater part of Elein-
seite in ashes, destroyed the church and cloister again. Fer-
dinand I. and Rudolph II. had the building renewed, which
was entirely reconstructed in the XVIII. century. The church
possesses two valuable paintings by Rubens: St. Augustin
and St. Thomas, besides a St. Thomas by Skreta. The ceiling
is painted by Rainer. In the cross-corridor of the cloister,
whose library contains about 10.000 volumes, rest the English
lady Jane Weston (f 1612), who composed Latin poems and
the famous goldsmith de Bruxelles from Flanders (f 1635).
Along the Thomasgasse (Tomd§skd ulice) we get to
the Count Waldstein's Palace on the Waldsteinsquare
(Vald§t^nsk6 ndmSstf), which has been erected by order of
Albrecht of Waldstein, duke of Friedland, in the y. 1623 till
1630 after the plans of the architect Marini from Milan,
on an area, where formerly about twenty houses used to stand.
This grand edifice of the Friedlftnder is partly preserved in
its original state, so the large Hall with karyatides and
a fresco-painting on the ceiling, representing Waldstein as
triumphator, the Chapel with oratory, the astrological Cabinet,
the Bath-grotto, the gaming-room with portraits of Waldstein
and his two spouses, the stuffed horse, which the warrior
rode in the battle at Ltttzen, the so called Salla terrina,
a large, open garden-hall with frescoes. In the private room
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there are to be seen many family portraits, old weapons etc.
In the garden with beautiful grounds there is a large voliere,
a wall in stalactite imitation, plant-houses and adjoining
a riding-school, in which splendid carrousels arc held by the
Bohemian nobility on festival occasions.
The Furstenherg^s Palace in the Waldsteingasse (Vald-
stynskA ulice) has a valuable library with almost 30.000 vo-
lumes and a very beautiful garden.
From the Waldsteinplatz we get across the Fttnfkirchen-
platz (P^tikostelni ndmSsti), with the Bohemian Diet-House,
and along the Ftlnfkirchengasse (Petikostelnf ulice) with the
Palace of the governor, to the Kleinseitner Ring (Malo-
stransk6 ndmSsti), which is divided by a block of houses
in two squares, the eastern and western or proper squares.
On the former stands the BadetzTcy- Monument, solemnly
unveiled on the 13*** Novemb. 1858. On a granite socle
8 soldiers of different troops bear on a shield the field-
marshal Radetzky, who holds the colours in his left and the
baton in his right hand. The model of the chief-figure is
by Em. Max, that of the other figures by Jos. Max, cast
by Burgschmiedt in Nuremberg. The total height till to the
top of the colours is lO'l w.
The k. u. k. Corps- Commando-building in the western
part of the square was till the beginning of the last cen-
tury a palace of the counts Liechtenstein, then of the counts
Ledebour and since 1849 it is adapted for the present use.
Opposite is
the St. Nicholas-Church, an imposing cupola-edifice in
the baroc style; its foundation-stone has been laid by the
Jesuits in the y. 1628. The building was carried on by
Christ. Dienzenhofer, and later by his son Eilian Ignaz, and
completed in the y. 1752. Since 1784 it is a parish church.
The interior is richly decorated with marble pillars, colossal
statues and ornaments of various sorts. The brass statue
of St. Nicholas, richly gilt, on the chief altar, is a work of
Ign. Platzer. The frescoes in the cupola and in the apsides
are by F. X. Balko, whose chief work, the dying St. Francis
Xav., is on a side altar. The frescoes of the nave are by
J. L. Graker. Other remarkable altar-pictures were painted
by Skreta (Christ on the Cross), Solimena (St. Michael),
Kohl (St. Barbara).
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In the centre of the square stands the Trinity statue ;
it was made by And. Quitainer and Prokov, and erected in
memory of the extinction of the plague.
In the Waischen Gasse (Vla§sk4 ulice) below the Lau-
renziberg (Petffn, Nebozlzek) there is the Prince LohTcovitz's
Palace (Line Melnik-Hofin) with a library of about 45.000
volumes, among them rare incunables, manuscripts from the
XI. and XII. cen., miniatures ate. The garden, rising in
the shape of a terrace, offers beautiful points of view of
Prague.
In the steep Neruda-Gasse (Nerudova ulice), leading to
the Hradchin, rises the Morzin's Palace, dating from 1670
withs Prpkov's karyatides of moors' statues above the portal.
The count Thun-Hohenstein's Palace opposite was built in the
beginning of the XYIII. cent, by the Italian Anselm Luragho
and adorned with works of sculpture by Math. Braun, and
with karyatides in the shape of eagles. The hind part to-
wards the Schloss-Stiege is the former Slavata's Palace, and
is preserved still in the old renaissance style; in the gable
there are the arms of Slavata and of the Rosenbergs.
The Kajetan-Ghurch, nowMarien-Church, erected close by
in the y. 1691 — 1717, contains paintings by M. Altomonte
and Rainer.
The Hradchin is the most interesting of all the parts
of the city. Libusha built a princely castle (Hrad — Burg)
on this hill, around which rose by and by a borough, which
in the middle of the XIV. cent, had the name Hradchin.
On its summit rises
the Strahov, a Premonstratensian Abbey with a church.
It was founded by king Vladislav I. in the y. 1140, and
after repeated devastations, especially during the Hussite wars,
it was repaired in the present shape towards the end of the
XYII. cent, by the Italian architects Chianevalle and Carloni,
and by the archiepiscopal architect Matth9.us of Burgund.
The Mary Assumption-Church contains the largest organ of
Bohemia (50 registers and 3177 pipes), a work of the
Premonstratensian Lohelius Oelschlftger, from the year 1780.
The stucco-works and frescoes on the ceiling and on
the walls are by J. W. Neuherz, Raab, Kramolin and
Nosetzky. Other noteworthy objects in the church are :
The large tomb of the founder of the order St. Norbert,
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the tomb of the king Vladislav I. and of count Gottf. Pappen-
heim, who fell in the battle of LUtzen, of his son Wolfgang
(f 1647); the tomb of many prelates; altar-pictures by
Franz X. Balko, Willmann and Hftring. The altars are of
Bohemian marble and executed by J. Lauermann.
The library of the Abbey, erected in the years 1782 — 93,
contains above 65.000 volumes and in that number many
incunables and manuscripts, and a collection of about 10.000
escutcheons, mostly of Bohemian noble families. The paint-
ings on the ceilings were executed by Maulpertsch in the
year 1794; the beautiful chests are from the abby Eloster-
bruck in Moravia, abolished in the year 1784. In the li-
brary are hanging good portraits of Georg R&k6czy and
Zi^ka. The Picture-Gallery was opened in 1837 and con-
tains about 500 numbers, and among them Albrecht DUrer's
„ Festival of the Rosary", paintings by Lucas Cranach, Carlo
Dolce, Guido Reni and others. The St. Rochuskirche in the
court, founded by Rudolph 11., has the shape of a star and
is built in the transition-style from gothic to renaissance ;
it has been abolished in the year 1784, but repaired in the
year 1881 — 82 and reopened.
The Fran^ Josephs Barracks on the Loretto-Platz are
a grand edifice adorned with 30 pillars in the front ; it was
formerly the count Czernin's Palace, which the government
has bought.
The Capuchin-Monastery opposite is the oldest Capu-
chin-settlement in Bohemia (1600), and possesses a valuable
library, an archive with interesting MS. The Loretto-
church, belonging to the Monastery was erected in 1661 and
enlarged in 1718; the frescoes on the ceiling are by Rai-
ners. The tower contains a chiming clock, now out of re-
pair, with 27 bells and was made by the clockmaker Neu-
mann in 1694. The cloister before the church, with 6 cha-
pels, was completed in the second half of the XVII. century ;
the altar-painting in the Francis Seraph. Chapel is by
Brandel. The treasury of the monastery, kept in three
rooms of the cloister, contains the richest church-treasures
in Bohemia, consisting of monstrances (among them one
with 6580 diamonds), chalices, mitres, various utensils for
the church of gold, silver, laid out with pearls and gems,
carvings in ivory, pictures in email ate. The Loretto-Chapel
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in the conrt is an imitation of the Santa Gasa in Loretto,
and was bnilt by the. conntess Benigna of Lobkowitz; the
stucco-works are by Agosto (1684).
Along the Lorettogasse we get to the Hradchiner Schloss-
platz, in the centre of which rises a Column of Mary by
Prokov, dating from the y. 1736.
The Toskana^s Palace to the west, which formerly
belonged to this grandducal family, is now property of the
emperor Francis Joseph.
The Karmeliterinnencloister, Nunnery of the Carmelites,
contains the tomb of its first abbess, of the bl. Elekta; the
St. fienedict-Church belongs to it.
The Prince Schwarzenberg's Palace near by in the
old Florentine style with sgraffitopaintings on the gable-front
and cornice, went over to the Schwarzenberg family in 1719;
formerly it belonged to the Rosenbergs, then Schwambergs
and Eggenbergs.
The Archiepiscopal Palace to the north of the square
was erected by Job. Wirth 1719 and has a beautiful private
chapel to St* John the Baptist, a library, portraits of the
archbishops of Prague and of the Popes. It contains also
the offices of the archiepiscopal Consistory.
Near the wallparapet of the Neuen Schloss-Stiege, leading
to the Kleinseite, there stands a statue of St. Philipp Nerius.
From this spot opens a beautiful view of the whole town.
On the east side of the Hradchiner Schlossplatz rises
the kdnigliche Burg or Boyal Castle. .
History: The princess Libnsha founded on the Schloss-
berg a castle, and later on Wenzel the Holy erected here
a ducal residence. The kings Wenzel I. and Ottokar II.
fortified the castle strongly, but in the beginning of the
Xiy. century it was entirely destroyed by fire, Charles IV.
reconstructed the castle of Prague after the Louvre in Paris,
and under Vladislav the architect Benedict Rieth made an
addition, which was completed in the year 1502. In the
year 1541 a confiagration destroyed the castle of Vladislav
except the Hall of Homage and some adjoining wings. Fer-
dinand I. erected the northern, Mathias I. the western part
of the castle, in which Rudolf II. gathered his numberless
treasures of art, which were scattered over all the quarters
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of the world in consequence of the Thirty Year's War and
under Charles VI* Its present appearance owes the castle,
which was greatly damaged by Prussian sieges, to the Em-
press Maria Theresia, who ordered it to be put into repair
by the architects Anselm Luragho, Gunz and Hafeneker in
the years 1766 till 1775.
The castle contains three courts^ The first Burgplace
is separated from the Hradchinerplace by an iron railing
with statues by J. Platzer. Through a doric portal, built
under king Mathias in the y, 1614 by Scamozzi, and from
which leads a beautiful staircase into the imperial cham-
bers, we pass to the second Burgplace, in the centre of
which rises a richly adorned fountain by Heidelberger, da-
ting from the year 1681 ; there is also the Imp, Roy, Pri-
vate Chapel,
The northern tract of the castle contains the Deutschen
and spanischen Saal (German and Spanish Halls) ^ both
erected under the reign of Ferdinand I.
The German Hall is 470 m^ large and contained under
Rudolph II. the chief treasures of the collection of this im-
perial protector of arts.
The Spanish Hall is 1152 w*^ large and is therefore
one of the largest halls in Europe. It was planned in
1601 by Horatio Fontana de Brussato and reconstructed
under Maria Theresia by J. K. Dienzenhofer. The walls of
these two halls are richly covered with marble and mirrors,
the ceilings, from which hang heavy gilt chandeliers, are
profusely decorated with ornaments of stucco.
In both these halls court-festivals are still held, and were
magnificently renovated for that purpose in the y. 1868.
On the third Burgplace rises to the left the Metropolitan
Church of St. Vitus (see further on below); in front of it
stands above a fountain-basin
The Equestrian Statue of St, George^ cast in bronze in
1373 by order of Charles IV.; it was executed by the
brothers Martin and George, the sons of the painter Nico-
laus von Klausenburg; but only the figure of the rider has
been preserved from that time, the horse having been in-
jured, was considerably repaired in 1562.
The remarkable sights in the eastern wing of the castle,
the Vladislav's part, are:
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The Vladislav's Hall^ alpo called the Hall of Homage,
because it was there, that the kings received homage, after
having been crowned, from the estates. It is 68*3 m long,
18*96 m wide and 13*3 w high and was built under Vladi-
slav in the y* 1484 till 1502 by Benedict Rieth with artful
vaults of the later gothic. A richly twisted net of orna-
mental ribs overspins the vault of the enormous room.
Tournaments used to be held there sometimes in former
times, as on the occasion of the coronation of Ferdinand I.
as king of Bohemia (1527).
The Landtagssaal (Diet-hall) in which the sittings of
the Bohemian Diet took place till the year 1847, contains
a beautiful gothic rib- vault with stone busts of Vladislav IL
and of the architect Benedict Rieth, further 11 standards
of Bohemian volunteer-legions from the French wars and
portraits of several regents.
The Old StatthaltereiJcandei (Senators Hall) in the
wing towards the city is preserved in the same state, in
which it was, when on the 23^ of May 1618 the royal
counsellors Martinic and Slavata, as well as their secretary,
Fabricius were thrown into a moat, more than 1 6 iw deep,
by the protestant estates of Bohemia. But all fell on
a dunghill without receiving any hurt and escaped the shots,
which were levelled after them. Fabricius hastened to
Vienna to inform the emperor of what had happened. The
portraits of the two counsellors, thrown down, are hanging
on the wall.
Tlie Cathedral of St. Vitus. Wenzel the Holy erected,
as early as in the year 930 on the space, which the re-
novated cathedral occupies, a St. Vitus' church, which be-
came a cathedral under Boleslav II. and was demolished
under SpitihnSv III. in 1060 in order to make room for
a larger one, which was completed by his brother Vrati-
slav II. It suffered much from different vicissitudes till king
Johann von Luxemburg and Charles the IV. laid the
foundation stone of the present cathedral on the 21"* No-
vember 1344 in consequence of the bishopric of Prague
having become an archbishopric. The building was carried
on by Mathias von Arras from the year 1344 — 1352, and
after his death by Peter Parler von Gmtind, and later on
by his son Johann; but the church has never been com^
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pleted. By the Hussite wars and still more by a terrible
conflagration in the year 1541 it was greatly damaged. Da-
ring the siege of Prague by Friderick of Prussia the ex-
terior and the interior were dreadfully devastated by bombs |
and fire. Very little has been done afterwards for its re- '*
storation and repair. \
In the year 1859 the „Dombau-Verein" was formed with
the view, to repair the damaged parts of the St. Vitus- Ca-
thedral, one of the most remarkable monuments of mediae-
val architecture, and to complete it. The work was carried i
on by the architect Kranner (f 1872), after him by Joseph !
Mocker (f 1899) and it proceeds hopefully. The cathedral,
designed according to Eranner's plans with five naves, is to
have a length of 158 m and a width of 45-83 m. At present ,
the choir is completed; it is 55-4 m long, 23-7 m wide and
is surrounded by 12 chapels. The unsightly spire is 99 '/a ^
high and is to reach the height of 156 m in corresponding i
style. In the ground-story there is the Hasenburg-Chapel, ;
in the first story seven bells, of which „Sigismund" is the
largest; it weighs 139 Vs q and was cast in 1549. From the *
balcony of the spire opens a beautiful view.
To the east of the cathedral beside the spire there
was an old mosaic-picture, now removed, representing the
Last Day, the Bohemian patron- saints, Charles IV. and his
spouse Elisabeth. The interior of the cathedral is wonder-
ful as regards architecture, and is rich in historical and art-
treasures.
The pillars of the quaint triforium gallery are adorned
with 21 busts of members of the royal family, of archbishops
and architects of the cathedral.
The new gothic chief altar is carved in Planer lime-
stone from designs by Kranner senior; the relic-shrine is
adorned with email-paintings from the designs of Sequens.
In the middle-nave there is the royal mausoleum within
a beautiful railing from the XVI. century, executed in
Carrara marble by order of Rudolph II. at the expense of
32 thousand ducats, by Alexander Collin from Mecheln (Malines)
in the year 1589. The figures, resting on the Mausoleum are :
Ferdinand I. (f 1564), his spouse Anna and Maximilian II.
(f 1576); on the side walls are relief images of Charles IV.
(t 1378) and of his four spouses (Blanca of Valois, ^nna
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of the Palatinate, Anna of Scbweidnitz and Elizabeth of
, Stettin) ; of Wenzel IV. (1419), of Ladislav Posthumus (f 1458)
and George of Podebrad (f 1471), whose remains are laid
in the sepulchre together with those of Rudolph II. (f 1612)
and of the Duchess of Parma Maria Amalia (f 1804).
The 12 chapels in the choir-circuit, taken from the
right of the chief entrance:
1. Tlie YenzeVs Chapel, founded by Johann of Luxemburg,
vaulted and completed by Peter Parler in the year 1366.
The walls are covered with Bohemian precious stones and
the gaps filled up wittf gold ; the nether frescoes (the Cruci-
fixion of Christ) date from the XIV. century; those above,
less discernible (the St. Wenzel legend) were remade in the
XVI. century. The tomb of St. Venzel with his relics was
formerly richly adorned with gold and gems, but was de-
prived of its precious objects by Sigmund in the year 1420.
The bronze ring in the lions head on the door of the chapel,
is said to be the same, of which the saint took hold when
being murdered by his brother Boleslav in Altbunzlau in the
year 935. This scene is the object of a picture behind the
altar, painted by Lucas Cranach in the year 1543. In
a shrine of the backside of the altar, erected in 1673, the
helmet and coat-of-mail of St. Venzel is shown. Among other
remarkable objects may be mentioned: The bronze Venzel-
candelabrum cast by Peter Vischer in Nuremberg in the
year 1532; a reliquiary, which is given out by mistake as
the model of the cathedral ; a baptismal iont, hewn of a single
piece of serpentine-stone; an Ascension of Mary painted by
Barthol. Spranger. From the chapel a door leads up a win-
ding stair to the Crown-Chamber. The keys of that door
are kept by seven dignitaries of the land. Along the wall
at the entrance to the Venzel Chapel there is the tomb of
George Popel of Lobkovic (1590) and at the pillar opposite
the tomb of the imper. marshal L. J. Schlick (f 1723).
2. The Martinitz Chapel contains the tomb of the im-
perial councellor Jaroslav von Martinitz, who was hurled out
of the window in the year 1618, the sepulchre of Barbara
von Cilli, spouse of the emperor Sigismund (f 1451) etc.
The picture on the altar, Christ on the Cross, is by Johann
von Aachen. The handsome gothic altar of Carrara marble
is a work of Wilhelm Achtermann, and has been presented
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to the church hy the cathedral provost Wtirfel. The frescoes
were painted by Sequens, who also designed the cartoons for
the windowglass-paintings.
3. The SL Simon and Jude Chapel has on its chief
altar a crucifix with the body of Christ, masterly carved of
cedar wood, a present by the emperor Rudolph IL The pic-
ture of Christ on the wall to the left, called the „vera icon"
is said to have been painted from a Byzantine picture in
Rome in the year 1368 in the presence of Charles IV.;
the pictures on the frame represent the patron-saints of
Bohemia. The glass-paintings are executed from cartoons by
Lhota. Above the side-entrance adjoining the chapel there
is the imperial Oratorium with admirable vaulting of crossed
branchribs ; it was built under Vladislav II. by Benedict Rieth
and renovated in the years 1861 and 1878.
4. Tlie Waldstein Chapel was founded by Adam von
Waldstein, once chief burggrave. The old wood relief on
the opposite pillar represents the devastation of the cathe-
dral by Scultetus, preacher of Friedrich of the Palatinate in
the year 1619.
5. Tlie Johann NepomuJc Chapel or Vlashimer Kapelle
contains the sepulchre of its founder, of the second arch-
bishop of Prague, O^ko von Vlashim (f 1380) and a bronze
memorial- slab of the countess Ludmila Berka von Thurn
(f 1582). On the chief altar stand the silver busts of
St. Adalbert, Wenzel, Vitus and Volfgang; in the midst of
them hangs a Mary-picture by Brandel. The glass-paintings
of the windows were executed in Innsbruck. Tlie silver tomb
of St. Johann of Nepomuk in the central nave was cast in
the years 1736 — 1760 by the silversmith to the court in
Vienna Job. Jos. Wirth. It has more then a hundred ctw.
and worth about 200.000 florins; it is a work not without
artistic value. The statues surrounding the coffin, represent :
Discretion, Humility, Love and Obedience. On the coffin
the Saint is kneeling under a canopy of red damask, held
by four silver angels.
6. TJie Sternberg Chapel contains the tomb of count
Sternberg, the sepulchres of Ottokar I. (1230) and of Otto-
kar II. (t 1278) completed by the hand of Peter Parler
about the year 1377, and under a marble stab with a Latin
inscription are the . entrails of Rudolph II. On the wall is
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visible the coat-of-arms of the Duke Rudolph of Saxony
(f 1356), who founded the altar, and therefore this chapel
is also named the Saxon chapel. From a pillar a gun-ball I
is hanging on a chain, which was thrown into the cathedral ^
while the Prussians besieged Prague in the year 1757. The
designs for the glass-paintings of the windows are by Mocker
and Sequens.
7. TJie Berka Chapel, now called Trinity or imperial
Chapel, contains the sepulchre of the family Berka von Duba,
and the tombs of the Dukes Bfetislav I. (f 1055) and his
spouse Judith and of Spitihn^y (f 1061). The marble group
on the chief altar representing the martyr'sdeath of St. Lud-
mila, is a work by Eman. Max and a present from the Em-
press Maria Anna. Near it stands the so called Salomon's
candelabrum, which is said to have been brought from the
Temple at Jerusalem to Milan, and hence in the year 1162
by king Wenzel I. to Prague. In reality, the lower part seems to
date from the XII. century; the candle-stick like upper part
has been cast in the year 1641. The glass-painting of the
windows has been executed from cartoons by FQhrich, Scheiwl
and Eranner by Quast.
Opposite the chapel, on the backside of the high altar
of the chief nave is the altar and the tomb of St. Vitus,
with a statue of the saint by Jos. Max. In the corridor of
the church rest 14 bishops (from 1067 — 1311) of Prague
under smooth trodden stones.
8. The Chapel of 8L John the Baptist contains the tombs
of Bfetislav II. (f 1100) and Boi'ivoj H. (f 1120). The
glass-paintings in the windows (among them in the middle
window Ernst von Pardubitz, who founded the chapel in the
year 1352) are by Quast from Trenkwald's and Lhota's designs.
At the pillar opposite is the tomb of the physician in
ordinary Guarinoni of Rudolph II.
I 9. The Pernstein Chapel, also called Kinsky or Mo-
l ravian Chapel, shows the red marble tomb of Count Yrati-
slav of Pernstein (f 1582), then the sepulchre of Count
t, Anton Kinsky and is the Mausoleum of the last six arch-
-■ bishops of Prague. The designs for the glass-paintings of the
t\ windows are from Sequens and Mocker. Before the chapel
B t is the tomb-stone of the historiographer PeSina z Cechorodu
9" (t 1680).
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10. The 8L Anna Chapel was formerly the sepulchre
chapel of the Counts Nostitz, therefore also called Nostitz
chapel. The gothic altar, made from sketches by Mocker,
is adorned with statue by §imek; the very valuable and
costly reliquiary, deposited inside of it, bears the year 1266
and is a present from Count Nostitz. The frescoes, referring
to the St. Anna legend, as well as the glass-paintings of the
windows have been executed from designs made by J. Swerts.
Opposite to the chapel on the backside of the presbytery,
there are two old interesting reliefs in wood; they represent
the flight of Frederick of the Palatinate after the battle of
the White Hill, and offer a pretty faithfull picture of Prague
before the Thirty Year's War.
11. The St. Michael Chapel is now used as vestry; in
the adjoining Treasury are preserved many interesting anti-
quities, valuable objects of art and relics. (The sword of
St. Wenzel, the sword of St. Stephan, two so called RoUand
horns, carved of ivory, gold crosses with precious stones, an
onyx vase, chasubles and church vessels, old pictures on
leather and wood, 16 leaves from the Gospel, which is said
to have been written by St. Mark, a Codex with miniatures
from the XIV. century, parts of the crown of thorns, of the
holy Cross, of the garment of the Mother of Christ, the tongue
of St. John of Nepomuk etc.
12. TTie Sigismund Chapel is the burial place of se-
veral members of the Count Czernin Houses, therefore also
called the Czernin Chapel. There is the tomb of St. Sigmund,
king of Burgundy, and of his spouse, the St. Constantia, as
well as the tomb of the Transsilvanian Prince Sigmund
Bdthory (f 1613). The glass-paintings have been made in
Innsbruck from plans by Lhota.
The large organ of the choir was constructed by Anton
Gartner from Tachau in the year 1763. Behind the St. Vitus'
cathedral on the Georgsplatz (U sv. Jifi) stands
the St, George^s Church with a Benedictine monastery
in former times. The church was founded by Vratislav I.
in the year 912, the monastery in the year 971 by Bole-
slav II., whose sister Milada was its first abbess. After the
fire in the year 1142, about the middle of the 12*^ century,
a new building was raised by the German stone-mason Wern-
her. Emperor Joseph II, abolished the monastery in 1782,
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and a part of it is at present used as barracks, while the
other part made place for the new Provost's building. The
church, a remarkable pillar-basilika, has preserved, in spite
of many transformations, the romanesque style and is the
oldest church in Prague. It contains the tombes of Vrati-
slav I. and Boleslav II., in the Ludmila chapel the stone -
tombs of these saints in gothic style and sculptures from
the XIV. century. In the year 1858 the chapel has been
renovated, and its western wall painted with frescoes from
the Ludmila legend by J. Hellich. In the Anna Chapel
there is the sepulchre of the first abbess Milada, and of the
abbess princess Kunigunde. Under the presbytery, in the
Ludmila Chapel and in the vestry remains of old wallpaintings
have been discovered recently, dating from the XIII. century,
the tomb or hrypta rests on 6 pillars.
Some of the old reliefs are also remarkable. The
beautiful side-portal shows in its tympanon relief, saint
George with the dragon. The two spires on the last side are
built till up to the top of bricks, and are being at present
thoroughly repaired.
The All Saints-Church {Allerheiligen-Kirche) is an edi-
fice, completed by Peter Parler before 1385. Charles lY.
raised it to a collegiate church.
The adjoining Ther^anische Bammstift, formerly a pa-
lace of the Rosenbergs, was founded in the year 1755 by
Maria Theresia; the abbess has the right, to place the
crown of Bohemia on the head of the queen, when being
crowned.
Passing the Georg-barracks we enter the Daliborka-
Lane, in tho houses of which the alchymists and gem grin-
ders of Rudolph the II. had their workshops.
The LdhkovitZ'Falade joins the Damenstift and stretches
till to the old Burgtor. From the bastion in front of the
same opens a beautiful view of Prague.
The old Oberstburggrafenamt (the Chief Burggrave
offices) opposite the Lobkovic, was built in the year 1555
on the spot, where, it is said, the castle of St. Wenzel and
later on, the residence of Charles lY. was standing. Above
the entrance the four coats-of-arm of the former burggraves
are placed (of Waldstein, Yrtba, Martinitz and Ftlrstenberg).
In the large judgement-hall (P^ story) with paintings on the
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ceiling, Salomon's verdict, criminals of the lordly and knightly
order were tried, and in the anti-hall the capital punishment
was at once executed with the sword. From the court we
reach Black Tower (Schwarzer Turm) and the Dalihorka.
The Schwarger Turm belonged formerly, just like the
other towers towards .the deer-park, to the old fortifications
of the castle, and therefore was used as a prison.
The Daliborha was transformed into a prison for state-
criminals in the year 1496, and derives its name from
knight Dalibor, whos was held prisoner here, because he
incited peasants to mutiny; he remained there till he was
beheaded in the year 1498.
The Weisser Turm (White Tower) or debtor's tower,
was a prison for debtors and cheaters.
Returning by the Royal Castle we pass through the
northern gate of the second Burgplatz to
the Hirschgraben (Deer -Park), a deep glen on the
north side of the Hofburg, in which under Rudolph II. stags
were kept.
The Schlossgarten, beyond the deer-park, laid out by
Ferdinand I., contains an interesting ore basin, rich with
figures by Thomas Jarosch of BrUnn, executed in the years
1554 — 1559. On the east side of the Schlossgarten rises
the Belvedere or Ferdincmd's J/ustschloss, one of the
finest monuments of the renaissance style. Ferdinand I.
had it executed for his spouse Anna by the Italian archi-
tects Paolo de Stella and Ferrabosco di Lagno in the years
1536 — 1556. The roof is of copper; above the arches are
beautiful arabesques and reliefs. The floor of the upper
gallery, which affords a beautiful view of Prague, was for-
merly laid out with cedar-wood.
Under Rudolph 11. it served for a longer time as ob-
servatory of the astronomer Tycho de Brahe.
The frescoes represent the following scenes : 1. Baptism
of Bofivoj (871) by Lhota. 2. The Murder of St. Venzel
(936) by Caii Svoboda. 3. The Transfer of the relics of
St. Adalbert to Prague (1039) by Trenkwald. 4. Crowning
of the Duke Yratislav king of Bohemia (1056) by Svoboda.
5. Vladislav resigns the crown of Bohemia in favour of his
brother Ottokar I. (1198) by Trenkwald. 6. Wenzel I. as
a minstrel (1230) by Svoboda. 7. Victory of Ottokar II.
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over the Samianders (1255) by Lhota. 8. Foundation of
the University of Prague by Charles IV. (1348) by Trenk-
wald. 9. The Battle of the Hussites at Lipan (1434) by
Trenkwald. 10. Crowning of Emperor Albrecht II. (1438)
by Svoboda. 11. Emperor Kndolph II., Protector of Arts,
by Lauffer. 12. Defence of Prague against the Swedes
(1648) by Lauffer. 13. Empereor Joseph II. during the
famine in Prague (1772) by Svoboda. 14. Emperor Leopold II.
in a sitting of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences
(1790) by Till.
The Choteksanlagen or the Volksgarten (Chotkovy sady)
to the east from the Belvedere, is worth visiting on account
of the charming view of Prague, which presents itself from
this spot. From here we get along the Chotekstrasse to
Klar's Asylum for the Blind, founded by prof. Klar
in the year 1832 for the adult blind, and remarkable for
the St. Raphaelskapelle, belonging to it, which contains
a beautiful statue of the archangel Raphael in marble, by
Emanuel Max and fine frescoes by Eandler and Lhota from
Ftlhrich's designs.
Along the Kettensteggasse (U 2elezn6 Idvky) we get to
the formerly Jesuit's garden, where now rises the monumental
edifice of Count Straka's Academy, founded and endowed
with funds by Count Straka, as an educational institution
for the higher classes of the kingdom of Bohemia. It occu-
pies an area of 22.300 m^ (of which 4.000 m^ are covered
with buildings).
Across the chain-bridge, made from the plans of Ordish
in 1869, we get to the Kronprinz Rudolphs-quay (Ndbi'eif
korunnlho prince Rudolfa), in the centre of which stands the
magnificent
Budolphinu/m, the artists house in]^the Italian renais-
sance style. The building, which occupies an area of 5035 m^
consists of a northern and southern tract. In the elevated
ground-floor of the first is the amphitheatre-like Concert-hall,
to which leads a spacious free staircase. In the ground-,
floor of the northern tract is the Conservatory for Music,
founded by a Society, for the furtherance of the musical art
in the year 1810. In the elevated ground-floor, to which
a staircase leads from the side of the bank, is the Exposi-
tion Hall (Kunsthof) for the exhibition of plastic works;
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a smaller Concert-Hall, rooms for pei'iodical expositions and
various offices. From the Eansthof we get across a free
staircase to a loggia, in the wall of which different memo-
rial- slabs are inserted, and then to the sky-light halls of
the Picture-Gallery of the Society of Friends of Patriotic
Art, in which the painting schools of almost all the times
and countries ar aptly represented. A rich collection of
copperprints, especially those of Wenzel Hollar from Prague,
who died in London in the year 1677, is exhibited on the
eastside in a higher situated hall.
Opposite the Rudolphinum is the Academy of Plastic
Art and the Industrial School.
The Jcunstgewerhliches Museum (Industrial Museum),
which was formerly located in the Rudolphinum, has now
its own beautiful edifice opposite the Rudolphinum in the
Salnitergasse. The collections contain industrial objects of
keramic, glass, precious and common metals, small plastics,
furniture, textiles, leather-work, book-bindings and outfits of
books; special attention deserve: Bohemian glass from the
XVII. and XVIII. centuries. The library contains exclusi-
vely works of art-industry and models*
From here we pass into the Earpfengasse (Kaprovd.
ulice) in
the Josephsiadt (Judenstadt). In this quarter, consi-
sting mostly of crooked lanes with shabby houses, the Jews
had a synagogue as early as 1124, having settled in the
vicinity of the borough of Prague.
In consequence of sanitary measures a considerable
number of houses has been demolished in this quarter.
Through the Josephst&dter Strasse, the main street, we pass
into the Rabbinergasse (Rabinsk4 ulice) at the corner of
which to the right stands the old jUdische Rathaus (Jewish
town-hall) with a clock, the dial of which has Roman and
Jewish ciphers, and its hands move from the right to the
left. Opposite is
the Altneuschule, one of the oldest buildings in Pragae
and one of the oldest synagogues of Europe. The early
gothic style dates from the XIV. century. A fine portal
in pure pointed arch-style leads you several steps down into
the gloomy interior; the ceiling is supported by tv^o
octagonal pillars, and the walls are blackened by age
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and the soot of lamps, which remained untouched for cen-
turies. Beside many Hebrew valuable objects, a flag is being
shown, dedicated to the Jews of Prague by Ferdinand III.
in recognition of their services, rendered during the siege
of Prague by the Swedes in the year 1648.
The Old Judenfriedhof (cemetery), in Hebrew „Beth-
Chajim" i. e. House of Life, on an area of 1*23 hektar,
is in a lane, left of the Hampasgasse. Numberless tomb-
stones in various positions, old lilac bushes, and many tales
and stories, referring to this place, impart to this cemetery
a picturesque and mystic character. The supposition, that
this cemetery existed already in the VH. century, and is
older than Prague itself, is erroneous and arose from the
incorrect reading of the numeral (606 instead of 1606) on
the tomb-stone of Sarah Kohn. Since emperor Joseph II.
it is not used as a burial place any more. The most intere-
sting tomb-stones are: The temple-like sarkophag of the
scholar Rabbi Low, called the „high L5w," surrounded by
the tomb-stones of his 33 favourite pupils; the tomb-stone
of Mardochai Meissel, of the Rabbi Oppenheim, of Hendele
Schmieles, whose husband has been knighted by Ferdinand II.
in the year 1622 for several services, with the predicate
von Treuenberg etc. The signs on the stones seem to refer
to the tribe, to which the deceased under the tomb belonged
(for inst. a grape refers to the tribe of Israel, two hands
to Aron, a can to Levi), or they refer to his name (a lion
to Low, a fish to Fischeles or Karpeles, a hen to Hahn).
The Agnescloister in the Agnesgasse with its church in
early gothic style, is at present wholly neglected, though it
is highly worthy of seeing. The monastery has been foun-
ded in the year 1234 by princess Agnes, daughter of Pfe-
mysl Ottokar 1. for the nuns of the order of St. Clara, but
was devastated by the Hussites, transferred to the Domini-
cans in the year 1556, returned to the nuns again in the
year 1625, and at last entirely abolished in the year 1782.
The Frane Joseph-Bridge leads from the Elisabethstrasse
(EliSfiina tffda) to the Baumgarten (Stromovka), to the Belve-
dere-Promenades and to the VII. city ward Holeshovitz.
The light, elegant construction was executed from the plans
of the English engineers Ordish and Lefeuvre in tie years 1865
till 1868.
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Along the Elisabethstrasse (£lis6ina tfida) we get to the
Josephsplatz (Josefsk^ n&m^sti); on its east side stands the
Franz Josephskaserne, a castle-lik« building, and adjoining
the Capuchiffs Hospice and St. Joseph's Church, con-
taining two paintings by Skreta and the tomb of Fieldmar-
shal Brown, who fell in the battle of Prague in the
year 1757.
From here to the east, stretches the PoH£ (Na poH51),
inhabited by a German colony in the XI. century, and there-
fore called vicus teutonicorum till the XIII. century. The
German settlers erected in the Petersgasse (U sv. Petra)
the Kirche zu St, Peter (St. Peter's Church) in the gothic
style, or properly speaking reconstructed it from a roma-
nesque building. The chief altar is by Rainer; on a side-
altar there is a Maria Magdalena by Skreta.
At the end of Po?i5 is the railway-station of the dsterr.
Nordwestbahn with a beautiful portal, and to the right the
kleine Stadtpark with a monument by Jos. Max, represen-
ting a resting lion, in memory of the soldiers, who fell in
the years 1848 and 1849. In the southern part of the
park-grounds rises
the stddtische Museum, opened on the 10*^ of May
1883, considerably enlarged by an additional building for
the preservation of memorials of art, especially of those,
that have reference to the city of Prague.
It contains a rich collection of old weapons, pictures
and statues, as well as illustrations and prints, referring to
the history of Prague.
Along the Florenz (Na Florenci) and Havlicekgasse
(Havli^kova ulice) we pass to the Hibernergasse (Hibernskd
ulice) ; opposite the Pulverturm (PraSnd brdna) is
the Custom-house (Haupt/sollamt), formerly a monastery
of the Hibernians, who erected a church of St. Ambrosius
in the year 1652. After its' abolition under emperor Jo-
seph II. it became a theatre, and in the year 1810 it was
reconstructed to serve its present purpose.
From the Pulverturm towards west, extends the prin-
cipal street of the city, the Graben (Na pfikop6', named
from a moat, which formerly separated the Altstadt from
the Neustadt. It is the busiest street and has following
prominent buildings:
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The magnificent Zivnostensk^ banka (Trader's bank),
erected in the years 1899 — 1900; farther
the German Casino {Beutsches Haus, on the left), pro-
perty of the German Union and a gathering-place of the
Germans in Prague.
Adjoining to it on the place, where the former Bohe-
mian Museum building used to stand, is the magnificent
Geskd zemskd banka (BOhmische Landesbank); farther on
the Nenst&dter Gymnasium with the Ereuzchurch and oppo-
site the Bergmannsgasse (Havli'skd ulice)
the Count Albert Nostiz Palace^ which belonged in the
XVII. century to Count Octavio Piccolomini, the rival of
Wallenstein. It was built by K. J. Dienzenhofer and reno-
vated in the years 1878 — 79. It contains now the Cecho-
slavian ethnographical museum.
Farther on rises the magnificent building of the Credit-
anstalt far Handel und Gewerbe.
The Venzelsplace (Ydclavsk^ ndm^stl) branches off from
the Graben to the south. It is one of the largest and
finest squares of Prague (682*75 m long and 60 m wide).
In the centre of the Venzelsplatz, the Heinrichsgasse (Jin-
dfi§sk4 ulice) branches off to the left, and its corner is
formed by a magnificent building of the Assicurazioni Generali.
At the end of this street rises the St. Heinrichskirche with
its belfry. The church was commenced under Charles IV.;
the belfry dates from the XV. century. In the Heinrichs-
gasse are the Post offices and the Telegraph offices.
On the upper end of the Venzelsplatz rises the monu-
mental building of the new
Landes- or National-Museum and forms a fitting con-
clusion of this square. This magnificent edifice, built at the
expense of the country, contains the collections and library,
which could hardly find room in the old building. The
edifice forms a rectangle 103 m in length and Tim in width;
and it has in the interior two courts of 1000 m^ size each.
The building rises on a solid foundation, three stories high.
Before the front there is a terrace, with perrons; in the
centre there are large fliers. In the ground-floor are the
lodgings of the officers and servants. In the higher floor
are halls for public lectures, for botanical collections, the
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library with reading-rooms and halls for the exhibition
of manuscripts, miniatures and rare paintings. A double-sided
stair-case leads through two stories to the cupola-space, the
entrance to the collections, in which are placed the busts
and statues of men, who have deserved well of the country.
In this floor are the halls of geological and mineralogical
collections, while the rooms of the 2. floor contain zoological,
ethnographical, historical, numismatic and chart collections.
The architecture of the whole building is done in the most
beautiful renaissance style; the expenses of its construction
amount to 1,800.000 fl. From the Museum extends to-
wards north
the grosse StadiparJc (MSstsky^ sad) having a length of
almost 700 m and a width of 80 — 125 on the grounds of
the former fortifications till to the Havli5ekplatz (Havli^kovo
ndmSsti). The centre of these beautiful grounds with taste-
fully arranged flowerbeds, groups of trees and a play-ground
for children, forms a pond, surrounded by artificial rocks
and with a water-fall; above it rises the Franz Josephs
railway-station.
Above the town-park rises on the grounds of the once
Neustadter Theater
the New German Theatre {neues deutsches Theater) built
from voluntary contributions of the Germans in Bohemia, and
opened on the 6*^ January 1888. Adjoining to the theatre-
building and connected with it through several passages, is
the deutsche Theatergarten with an excellent restaurant. In
fine weather regular concerts are held there. Along the
Wassergasse (VodiCkova ulice) we pass from the Wenzelsplatz
into the Jungmannsplatz (Jungmanovo ndmSsti), formerly
Maria Schneeplatz with a monument of the Bohemian scholar
Joseph Jungmann, unveiled on the 15*^ May in the year 1878.
The Maria-Schnee-Church with a Franciscan convent,
was founded by Emperor Charles IV. in the year 1347, and
given over to the Carmelites. These were expelled by the
Hussites and the cloister destroyed in the year 1420, but
the steeple of the church was so much injured in the fights
between the inhabitants of the Altstadt and of the Neustadt,
that it fell in. Since the year 1603 the cloister and church
belong to the Franciscans, who suffered severely many times
especially during the inroad of the Passovians in the year
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1617. The church is the highest in Prague and has
a heautiful Salutation by the Angel from Rainer.
The Jungmannsgasse opens into the Karlsplate (Karlovo
ndmSsti), formerly named Yiehmarkt, the largest garden-
grounds with promenades in Prague. In its northern part
there is a monument to the Bohemian poet V. IMek. The
most noteworthy buildings are:
The Neustddter Bathaus (the former Townhall) to
the north, was founded by Charles IV. and entirely rebuilt
in the year 1806, and only the tower remained from the
year 1451. Before this building the Hussite war took its
beginning in the year 1419, the city-counsellors having been
hurled out of windows on the erected pikes of the enraged
people. At present it is tho seat of the Criminal Court.
The Ignae-Church to the east was built by the Jesuits in
the year 1678, and since the abolition of this order serves
as a garrison- church ; in which the Jesuits, introduced there
again in the year 1866, provide for the divine worship. It
has two good paintings by Heintsch. The adjoining former
college of the Jesuits serves as Imp. Roy, garrison-hospital.
To the west of the Karlsplatz rises
the Bohemian Polytechnicum, a beautiful building with
collections. The Franz Joseph's Children's Hospital^ founded
in the year 1841 by Dr. Kratzmann.
On the east side of the Karlsplatz is the Deaf and
Dumb Asylum. The building belonged in the XIV. and
XV. centuries to the Dukes of Troppau ; in the XVIII. cen-
tury it was gained by the lords Mladota of Solopisk. Since
1838 it belongs to the Deaf and Dumb Institution, supported
by private contributions. For a long time it was popularly
called the „Faust-Haus", because according to a tradition
the magician Faust lived there. Close to it stands
the hospital (Allgemeines KranJcenhaus), founded by
Joseph in the year 1790, and considerably enlarged in the
year 1839. Connected with it are other medical and scientific
^ institutions of the German University, for which grand buildings
have been erected of late. Thereto belong in the Kranken-
hausgasse (U nemocnice) the pathologisch-anatomische Lehr-
anstalt, and opposite, the Imp. Roy. Anatomical, the Imp. Roy.
medico-chemical Institution, and the Imp. Roy. Institution of
Natural History.
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The St Stephanschurch stood already in the Xin. cen-
tury ; under Charles lY. a new building was begun, which was
completed only in the beginning of the XV. century. Under
king Mathias in the year 1612 a new reconstruction took
place. The most recent restoration of the building dates
from the years 1855 — 56, and of the tower from the year
1876. The former cemetery, by which it was enclosed, was
transformed into the Teichgasse. Remarkable are in the in-
terior of the church the old gothic pulpit, and a pewter
baptism-basin from the year 1462 and many tomb-stones.
A little aside stands the pointed belfry (the oldest of the
four bells date from 1490 and 1516) and in the parson's
garden in the Teichgasse (Na rybnl6ku) the old romauesque
Longinus Chapel from the 12. century.
The Lying-in Hospital at the corner of the Earlshof
(U Karlova) and of ApoUinargasse (Apolin&fskd ulice) is
a magnificent building in gothic style, from the designs of
the architect Hl&vka, commenced in the year 1867 and
handed over to its destination in 1875. At the end of the
Karlshofergasse (U Earlova) rises
the Karlshof. Charles IV. founded here in memory of
Charlemagne in the year 1377 the Mary- Ascension Church
together with a monastery for the Augustine-order, invited
from France.
The monastery was abolished in the year 1785 and
transformed into an Infirmary for the poor of Prague. The
church is a work of Peter Parler of GmUnd and one of the
most valuable gothic edifices of the XIV. century. It has
suffered much and often in the course of ages, so from the
Hussites in the year 1420, from a riot in 1611, during
the Thirty years war and in the year 1757. The repairs,
which consequently became necessary, were without taste and
out of keeping with the style. From the original building
only the splendid cupola remained, a bold, magnificent star-
vault with a diameter of 23*7 m, and no other gothic archi-
tecture can show more. Among the pictures are remarkable :
St. Anna and St. Salvator by Heintsch; on the new altar
there is a Madonna as central picture, on the side-wings
St. Wenzel, Charles the Great, painted on gold ground by
Lhota. In the two windows on the east side are old glass-
paintings from the time of Vladislav 11. , representing Charles
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the Great and the coat-of-arms of the Qaeen Anna de Foix,
the spouse of Vladislav.
From the Karlshof we pass along the Berggasse (Horskd
ulice) into the Slupgasse (Na Slupi) to
the Mary 'Annunciation Church. On this place a cha-
pel used to stand already before Charles lY., and he foun-
ded a monastery in connection with it in the year 1360.
It was greatly injured by the Hussites, but rebuilt again
in the year 1665. The altar-picture of the church, the
vault of which rests on a single pillar, is by Kuppelwieser.
At the end of the Slupergasse is the Elisabethinerinnen-
Hospital with a church, the botanical garden of the two
universities, and opposite to the latter is the Poorhouse at
St. Bartholomew.
The Church of St. John Nepomuk on the „Rock" in
the Vyschehraderstrasse (VySehradskd tffda) was built by
K. J. Dienzenhofer in the year 1730. It has beautiful
frescoepaintings and on the chief altar is a wooden statue of
St. John of Nepomuk by Prokov, which served as a model
to the metal statue on the Karlsbrflcke. Opposite to the
church is
the Benedictine Abbey Emaus with the Mary Ascension
Church, erected by Charles IV. in the years 1348—1372
and given over to the Benedictines from Dalmatia and
Croatia for the Divine Service held in the Slavonic language.
During the inroad of the Passovians in the year 1611 the
monastery was plundered and its rich library destroyed; in
the year 1635 it passed over to the Benedictines of Montserrat ;
in the year 1880 the Benedictines of Beuron bought the mo-
nastery and church and employ themselves to the restoration
in their original style. The frescoes in the gothic cloister
from the time of Charles IV. Near the vestry is the „ king's
ChapeP, which the Slavonic Benedictines used originally as
chapter-hall. From this monastery came the famous Gospel
in Cyrillic characters, on which the French kings formerly
did the coronation- oath, and which is kept in Rheims as
„Texte du sacre". The small Church of St. Cosmas and Damian
near the church in the court stood already in the X. century,
but was built in its present shape in the year 1657.
The Vyshehrad consists of the castle or bastion on
a rock, and of the mining-town Vyschehrad ; the latter con-
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sists of a single street, leading across the square to the first
gate of the castle. A road, brocken through the rocks,
leads to the proper historically interesting
Castle Vyshehrad (i. e. higher castle). The old Castle
of the Bohemian princess rose on the southern extremity of
the rock, in the vicinity of the present arsenal. The Bohe-
mian princes resided there till the XIL, at least for a time,
and held their assizes there; but in the XIII. century the
royal castle became desolate. King Charles IV. fortified the
Vyshehrad in 1348 and Wenzel IV. resided there more often.
During the Hussite war the castle was besieged by the in-
habitants of Prague, and had to surrender to the Hussites
after the battle of Pankratz (on the 1** November 1420),
which turned out unfortunately for Sigismund. The Hussites
turned all the magnificent edifices, among that number 14
churches, into a heap of ruins, of which not a trace re-
mained.
After the Thirty Years war the Vyshehrad was to be
fortified again, for which purpose the last old ruins were
removed, only the spires of the Collegiate-Church of St. Peter
and Paul, as well as of St. Martin's Chapel, remained as
memorials of the oldest architecture.
The Collegiate ' Church of St. Peter and Paul was
erected by Vratislav II. in the years 1070—1080. The
original romanesque basilica lost a great deal of its former
size and beauty in consequence of wars and renovation.
The chief altar is by Rainer^ a Mary Magdalena by
Skreta, the altar picture of the „Poor Souls" by Heintsch;
an old Bohemian Madonna-picture dates from the XIV. cen-
tury. The wall-painting above the vestry represents Prague,
as it is said to have been before the year 1420.
The cemetery contains many beautiful tombstones ; here
are buried the most prominent Bohemian scholars, poets,
artists, the physiologist Job. Purkyn6(1787 — 1869), Wenzel
Hanka (1791—1861), V. Hdlek (1835—1874), B. Jablon-
sk^ (1813 — 1881), the greatest Bohemian musical .composer
Smetana (f 1884), the sculptor Wenzel Lev^ (1820—1870) etc.
The St. Martin's Chapel on the road-side is one of
the oldest architectonical memorials of Prague. This ro-
manesque building is said to have been erected by St. Adal-
bert ont he spot, where a heathen temple used to stand.
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The Promenades.
The most favourite promenade in the town is the Gra-
ben, the Wenzelsplatz, the Franzensquay, the Stadtpark, the
Sophieninsel and the Schutzeninsel ; in the latter during
summer military band concerts take place several times
a week.
The Hasenhurg on the eastern declivity of the Lauren-
zenberg, has extensive garden-grounds with a restaurant and
a fine view of the town. A cable- tramway ascends from
the Aujezd (Na Ujezde) to the Hasenhurg, and facilitates
the enjoyment of a most charming view from the Petfin
View-Tower. On the top of the Laurenziberg rises the
church of St. Laurenz, which dates from the X. century and
was rebuilt in the years 1735 — 1770.
Before the church, in the open space is a chapel of
the Holy Sepulchre, to which leads a cross- way with 14 sta-
tions. The PetHn-tower is 60 m high and is open every
day from 8 o'clock A. M. till 8 o'clock in the evening. Ad-
mission-fee 40 h, children 20 h, with lift 1 K. In the
groundfloor of the Petfin -tower there is an elegant Caf6
with restaurant. Before the Petfin-tower is the Pavilion of
the Bohemian Tourists Club, from the Jubilee-Exhibition in
1891, with a large diorama painting, representing the de-
fence of Prague against the Swedes, and a mirror-labyrinth.
The Kronprinjs Budolphs-Anlagen (Sady korunniho prince
Rudolfa) on the Belvedere offer a beautiful promenade and
a fine view of the town; before the restaurant-building con-
certs take place in summer.
On application even the Hirschgraben, the Kinsky's,
Lobkovitz's gardens are opened and worthy of a visit.
Suburbs.
Karolinenthal (Karlin) extends between the Moldau
and the Zi^kaberg, is regularly situated and chiefly a place
of manufactories and of industry. In the well cared for
Jungmann's grounds (Jungmanovy sady) the St. Cyrill and
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Method Church is remarkable, a fine basilika, opened in the
year 1863, the thousandth anniversary of the apostles of
the Slavians Cyrill and Method. At the foot of the ^iikaberg
is the Invalidenhaus, founded under Charles YI. in the year
1729 and completed in its present state by emperor Jo-
seph II.
Smichov on the left bank of the Moldau has quite the
character of an important industrial town, and among its
establishments are especially prominent Ringhofier's manu-
factory of waggons.
Worthy of seeing are the new St. Wenzel's Church
in the Einskystrasse (Einsk^ho tHda), and the beautiful
Einsky-garden above the former Aujezd-gate with a nice
villa, artificial ponds, waterfalls and a wonderful view of
the town.
The Palack:^-Bridge (Most Palack^ho), connecting the
Smichov with the Neustadt, is 228 m long, and is built
entirely of granite square-stones.
On the east side of Smichov is the Westbahnhof, con-
nected by a rail-bridge with the Franz-Josephsbahn.
The suburbs kOnigl. Weinberge (Vinohrady) and Zi2kov
have some beautiful buildings, but there is nothing remar-
kable about them. The same may be said of the other
suburbs.
The Environs of Prague.
The Baumgarten (Er&lovsk& obora) (elec. tramway from
the Josephsplatz) is one of the finest park-grounds in cen-
tral Europe. Formerly is was a deer-garden, but now is
the most favourite promenade of the fashionable people of
Prague. Beautiful walks, artificial ponds with islands and
old tree-groups offer to the visitor great enjoyment. Before
the restaurant, below the castle the military brass-band plays
every Sunday and Thursday. The castle, from the time
of Vladislav II., is the summer-residence of the Statthalter
or governor.
In the eastern part of the park extend the Exhibi-
tion-grounds, on which the jubile exhibition (1891) took
place; the Belcredistrasse connects it directly with Prague.
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The Stern — HvSzda (from the Graben across the Hrad-
chin 1 % hour on foot ; by rail-way st. Libotz of the Buschtie-
hrader Bahn it takes from the Staatsbahnhof 40 min. Formerly
it was a deer-garden, and now a favourite excursion place
of the people of Prague. Its name Stern (star) is derived
from the castle, which archduke Ferdinand, husband of the
lovely Philippine Welser, erected in 1555 in the shape of
a star with six rays. Of the former artistic ornaments of
its chambers remained only some valuable stucco-works on
the ceiling. Since the year 1785 till 1873 it served as
a powder-store. In the year 1873 it was cleared and ope-
ned to visitors for inspection. In the deer-garden there are
extensive promenades, forest-groves and a restaurant. In
shady hollow near the hunting-seat there is a stone with an
inscription, marking the spot, from where Frederick II., king
of Prussia, is said to have directed the siege of Prague
(1757).
From the village Libotz stretches towards north the
wild Sharka, a valley three hours' walk long, rich in wild
romantic beauties of nature and picturesque groups of rocks.
To the west from the Stern stretches the White Hill,
the scene of the memorable battle of the 8^^ November in
1620, in which the Bohemians under their own elected king
Frederick V. of the Palatinate, were conquered by the army
of emperor Ferdinand II. under the command of Maximilian
of Bavaria in less than an hour. A church of Maria de
Victoria has been erected there in commemoration of this
victory. It stands in the centre of a cloister, full of chapels
and pictures by Marias Wundern. Above the entrance a bas-
relief shows the Madonna, offering the victorious army victory
over the enemy, put to flight. On Mary days many pilgrims
flock to this church. The Benedictine Abbey St. Margareth
(Bfevnov) on the road from the Stem to Prague is the first
monastery for men in Bohemia. It was founded by Boleslav II.
in the year 993, repeatedly destroyed and erected in its
present shape in the years 1701 — 1736. In the church there
are several paintings by Brandel, an old reliquiary, a hand-
bone of St. Margareth, which has been transferred there on
the 13*^ June 1262; in memory of it a popular feast is held
there annually on the Sunday after St. Margareth. The
monastery possesses a beautiful library and an archive;
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there is also among other treasures an autogram by St.
Adalbert from the X. century.
A very pearl among all the places of excursion is the
castle Karlstein (Karluv Ty^^n). Visitors in Prague should
not omit to make an excursion to this historically famous
castle, which produces on the looker on a deep and lasting
impression. By the Bohem. Westbahn it takes only an
hours time (Rail-way station Karlstein).
From the station you pass an iron bridge through the
borough Budfian to the castle. On a mighty rock, not far
from the river Mies, rises the castle in the shape of a horse
shoe, round a massive tower. The whole is surrounded by
double, in some places by threefold walls.
It was founded by Charles IV. in the year 1348, and
built by Mathias von Arras from the model of the Pope's
palace in Avignon. The foundation-stone has been laid on
the 10*^ June 1348 by archbishop Ernst of Pardubitz.
Charles intended it is a quiet country-seat for himself, and as
a safe for the state treasures, documents and many relics.
The lonely romantic country, the fortress almost impregnable
at that time and with its science of war, the comperatively
small distance from Prague of the rock, on which the castle
stood, answered this purpose quite well. For the protection
and defence of the castle 22 knights in the neighbourhood
were stationed; the command was held by a burggrave, ap-
pointed by the emperor and chosen from the nobility, to
whom Wenzel IV. in the year 1405 added another burg-
grave, selected from the knights. Besides this 20 vassals
were appointed to man and protect the castle. In the
year 1422 the Bohemian estates and towns rebelled against
emperor Sigmund, acknowledged the Luthuanian Prince Sig-
mund Korybut as their administrator, marched on the
20*^ May with an army before the Castle Karlstein in order
to take possession of it. The number of the besiegers
amounted to many thousands, that of the besieged only to
4 hundred. The besiegers exhausted, in the course of six
months, all the war-like art of their century.
The stone missiles recoiled from the walls almost without
any effect. The besieged suffered more from catapults,
which hurled 9032 stones, 1822 barrels of dirt and 22 bar-
rels with fire into the castle.
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Emperor Sigismahd did not repair the damages, caused
during the siege in the castle, but took away a large part
of its treasures to defray the increasing expenses, which th-
war with the Hussites entailed upon him. On the 23^ Fee
bruary 1487 the castle was destroyed by a fire, but the state-
jewels were saved. Rudolph II. did his best to restore
Karlsteiu, but he impaired by his orders many valuable
memorials of art, if they did not suit his taste. In the
year 1620 the castle containd a garrison of 600 English
and Scotch soldiers, who surrendered to the imperial general
prince Liechtenstein after the battle on the White Hill,
and were allowed free passage. The thorough repair of the
castle, commenced in the year 1889 at public expenses, is
drawing to its end now, and the castle presents to the
visitor a most interesting specimen of the oldest archi-
tecture.
Through the first gate, which was closed seventy years
with a falling railing, and for the protection of which
a square watch-tower rises to the left, we pass on along
a ramparted road into the second gate. In the fore-yard
we meet a keeper, who will be our guide. The chief build-
ing of the castle is five stories high. In the first building
in the ground-floor are stables, barns, and above them the
chapel of St. Nicholas, which arose to, gether with the castle
adjusted at an earlier date than the other chapels, and
destined for Divine Service for the vassals. Immediately
above the chapel of St. Nicholas was the palace of the em-
peror. The upper story contained a hall, probably a dining-
room and three side-chambers, all with Welsh fire-sides.
The Mary-Church. The interior of the same suffered
much from the restoration by Rudolph. The walls are covered
with paintings, representing in rich composition scenes from
the Apokalypse with short introductory inscriptions. On the
southern wall near the enstrance-door to the Catharine Chapel
are three portraits of Charles IV., namely: Charles IV.
approaches in full imperial vestments his spouse Blanca and
offers her a gold wreath ; Charles IV^ receives from a crowned
youth a crystal; Charles IV. stands before a cross with
relics. On the eastern wall stands an altar- work consisting
of 3 parts, which formerly stood on the chief altar of the
Palmatius-Church in Budnan, and which probably dates from
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the time of Vladislav 11. On the Welsh fire-side of the
eastern wall stand 2 wings of a tryptychon, of which the
one represents Mary with the Child, the other the Man of
Sorrow; the latter bears the name of the artist Thomas v.
Mutina. The St. Nicholas statue in the same place is taken
from the Karlstein Nicholas Chapel, and is said to have been
made by the hand of Charles IV.
The Catharine-Chapel was the smallest among the cha-
pels of Karlstein, but most splendidly adorned, and has been
excellently preserved. The altarstone is covered with paint-
ings from the time of Charles. The walls were laid out
with gems and gold. Above the door is the portrait of
Charles IV. with his spouse Anna. The antipendium shows
a beautiful crucifixion, and on the epistleside of the altar
is a St. Catharine. The picture in the niche represents
a Madonna with the Child, which raises its hand in order
to bless the kneeling Charles IV. . On the north wall there
is a stripe with gothic arches with 7 heads of saints beneath.
In the windows near the altar are still the remains of former
glasspaintings. Especially remarkable is the marble statue
of the Madonna with her Child.
The highest part of the castle is the Chief Tower,
whose colossal walls, 4 met. thick, contain the magnificent
church of the holy Cross, whose precincts were formerly the
safe of state-treasures and many relics. The tower is five
stories high, designed in an oblong quadrangle, 26 met. long,
23 wide and 37 met. high. It is surrounded by bulwarks
with five watch-houses; through one of them we pass now
into the tower; formerly the entrance was through a gate,
now walled up, and across a draw-bridge which disappeared
long ago. Quite below are two vaults, which served as pri-
sons. The walls along the stair-caise contain highly intere-
sting wall-paintings from the legend of St. Wenzel and Lud-
mila. In the second story are spacious rooms, empty and
bare; the strong iron railing bears visible traces of the da-
mages, suffered during the Hussite wars. In one of these
rooms lies still a stupendous stone near the window, through
which it was hurled in. Over twenty four steps -we ascend
the famous Kreuz-Kapelle (chapel of the holy cross.). An
iron bar, ten bolts and nine hanging locks once protected
the entrance, which was also sometimes sealed. On entering
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the interior of the chapel the visitor is surprised at the
unexpected magnificence, the rich works of art, which have
been heaped up here in the middle of the XIV. century.
A gilt iron grate 2 m high and 8 m long divides the space
of the chapel ; of the nuraerotis gems, which once were hang-
ing on this grate, only one fine chrisopras of considerable
size remained; the rest became the prey of greediness.
' Along the walls there are 21 chests which formerly
contained privileges, important state-documents of the King-
dom of Bohemia. In the window-niches are paintings, prob-
ably illustrating the Apocalypsis. The ceiling represented
formerly the sky; the sun, moon and the stars were of gold,
silver and crystal; now remain only traces of the heavenly
bodies, which have disappeared long ago.
The most remarkable sight are the paintings from the
XIV. century, which are nowhere to be met with so rich,
genuine, except in Italy. A beautiful view opens from the
tops of the towers.
The well of the Earlstein is also remarkable. It is
hewn in a hard rock and very deep (154*7 iw). A stone,
thrown down, requires considerable time to reach the sur-
face of the water. Above, there is a treadwheel, which four
strong men must move in order to draw water. A certain
number of menials used to perform this work in old times.
Die
Kirchen. Gebiude und AnstaltMi.
1. Amerikm (Vila) F 8.
2. AaatDausches InstiL E 8.
3. Assicvaz. Gcner. F 6—7.
4. HjpoCbekealMnk G %.
5. Prater Borse F 6.
%. Osterr.-imgar Buk F &
7. Bohm. UnioobaBk F 6.
& Bbndeninst, KlancfaesDSL
9. Prodakteoborse F 6.
la ChemLiseh. lAstimt E 8.
U. Theresan. DamensUft C&
12. FrehrehL Daneiiatift F &
13. Landesbank F 6.
14 Direkt. d. k. k. 9tb. G 6.
15. St. Adalbertaktrehe E T.
16. Fravenerverb-Verein E 7.
17. Gamisonsspital E 8.
18. Bnbischofl. Palais B 5.
19. Malenaald. NaL-Th.B9.
20. Gebarfaavs ¥ 9.
21. Altstadter deatseh. auat».
gjaiiiasiiuB E 6.
22. Xenstid. deutscfa. Scaats
gjBnasnnii. Graben F 6.
23. Klonseitner dentseh. Real-
v. ObergymnaaJnm C 6.
24. Xeustad. Staatsgyouiasiain
Scephansgasse F 7.
25. Deatgcfa. StaatsgymnasJmn
Smiehow C 8.
2S Rbcemeh., Weinbrg. G 8.
27. Devt. Bandels3kadem. ES.
28. Handelsspital F 9.
29. Dent. Bandwerkerrer. F7.
ao. HanptaoDamt, k. k. F &
31. Irrenanatalt F 8, 9.
32. Kindenpital, dentseh. E 8.
33. Kmderspital, bohm. F 9.
34. Adalbertskirehe D 7.
as. Egidikirehe E &
as. Asneskirehe F 5.
37. Ailerfaeiliiren-Kirehe C 5.
38. St. ApoUinarkirche E 9.
39. St. BaKholom.-Eirche E 7.
40. Dretfaltigkeitskirche E 9.
41. GaOikirche E 6.
42. HL G«istkirche E 5.
43. Georgskirehe C S.
44. Heinriehskirehe F 6.
46. Ignatiiiskirche E 8
46. Jakobskirebe F 8.
47. St. Johann am Felsen E 8.
4& Kloster d. en^Friol. C 6.
49. St. Kajetankirehe B 5.
50. St. Kathaiinenkirche F 8.
51. Klemenskircbe F S.
52. Klementskirche, Bubna F 4
53. Kreiixher.Klosterkirche D6.
54. LAoranzkirche B 7.
55. Lorettokirehe A 5.
56. LndmSlakirehe G 8.
57. lfaltes«rkirehe C 6.
56. Maria Schneekirche E 7.
58. KarmeHterkircbe C 6.
60. Irrenanstaltfiliale E 9.
61. Niklaskirche C 6.
62. RasBiaehe Kirche E 6.
63. Peteiskirche G S.
m. Peter a. Paolkirefae B 10.
Prokopikirehe J 6.
Rochoskirehe A 6.
67. Roehnakirehe, Woiaeh. K7.
68. Stephanskirehe F 8.
69. I>r«a£alti«keitskircfae E 7.
7a FrsoL, Klost. n. Kirche D7.
71. Vehs-Dora C 5.
72. Wenxelskircbe' C 8.
73. Dentsche VolkakOehe E 7.
74. Krankenhaos, ADg. E 8.
75. Bamhemge Brfider E 5.
7& EtisabethiDeriBiMfi E 9.
77. Klost. d. Baxmh. Schw. B 6.
78. Knnkenhans, Israel. B 5.
79. Landesgerieht F 6.
80. LandeekidtarTat F 7.
81. Landtagsgebaade C 5.
82. Leihamt F 6.
83. Lese o. Redehalle deotaeh.
Stad. F 7.
84. MOnsamt e. Lotto-KoL E S
86. Madeh.-Lyeenm, dent. E 7.
86. Manner-Turarer., d.T. B 7.
87. Landee-M oaeam D 7.
88. Stadt. Maseom G S.
89. Kanstgewerbl. Museum E 5
90. Geverbe- Museum E 6.
91. Etnogr. Museum B 8.
92. Landeshanptkaaaa C 6.
93. Pathologtsehes Inst, der
dentseh. rnhrers. E 8.
94. PoUzei-Direktion E 7.
95. Post- n. Telegr.-INr. F 7.
96. Deotsehe Realsehnle E 7.
97. Smidiower Realsehnle C7.
96. Oberrealschnle, dentseh.,
Karolinental G 5.
99. Palais Schwarzenberg E 7
100. Altst. Rathans E 6.
101. Realschnle-bohm. J 5.
l'>2. Dent. StaatsKjmnas. C 8
I'yQ. Rathans, 2iikow J 6.
104. Rndolfinnm D 5.
105. Sieehenhans F 9.
106. Sparkassa, Bohm. D 7.
IX. Sparkassa, Stadtische E 6.
108. Statthalterei, k. k. C 6.
109. Stemwarte D 6.
U'^. Strafgeneht, k. k. E 7.
111. Landesthealer, Dent. E 6.
112. Dentseh. Theat., Ken. G 7.
113. Dent. Sommertheat. G 7.
114. Nationahheater D 7.
115. Theater Vari«t4 H 5.
116. Teehnik, deatsche B 6.
117. Technik, deehische E 8.
118. Teinkirehe E 6.
119. TnrnTerein, Dentseh. F 7.
120. Karolinnm E 6.
121. Klementlnnm DE 6.
122. Waisenhans, Italien. B 6.
123. Waisenhans, Sadt. A 6.
124. Waisenhans an St. Johann
F 8.
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